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fessor of Botany in the Royal Dublin Society, and Keeper of 
the Herbarium, and eventually Professor of Botany in Trinity 
College, Dublin), introduced himself by letter with specimens 
from two new localities of a West Indian moss [Hooker ia 
laete-virens) found nowhere in the eastern hemisphere but 
the south and west of Ireland. It was answered by an 
invitation to Glasgow, which resulted in an intimacy that 
amounted to his being regarded as a member of the family. 
Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Harvey took the same interest in 
the Algae of the herbarium as Wilson did in the Musci 
and Berkeley in the Fungi, besides augmenting it largely 
by contributions from the splendid collections made during 
his voyages to North America, Ceylon, Australia, and the 
Pacific Ocean, for the sole purpose of investigating their 
marine Floras. Many illustrations of his classical works 
4 Nereis Boreali- Americana/ ‘ Nereis Australis,’ ‘ Phycologia 
Britannica,’ and ‘ Phycologia Australis,’ were lithographed by 
himself under my father’s roof at Glasgow, West Park, and 
Kew. He died the year after the latter 1 , when staying with 
my mother at Torquay. 
I must not close this brief notice of my father’s activity 
in encouraging others without an allusion to the solicitude 
with which he fostered my own aspirations to become a 
traveller and a botanist ; the interest he took in my ambitious 
projects ; the energy with which he aided me in overcoming 
every obstacle thrown in my way, and prevailed on the 
higher powers to grant me facilities and the necessary funds ; 
and, last but not least, the liberality with which he helped me 
whenever other resources were exhausted. In this connexion 
I refer especially to four crises in my scientific career : — my 
appointment to accompany Sir James Ross in the Antarctic 
Expedition in 1839 (for which he supplied all my scientific 
outfit) ; my (unsuccessful) candidature for the Professorship 
1 No fewer than ten of my father’s botanical friends died within three years of 
his own end, including seven who were amongst his most intimate associates : 
Borrer, 1862 ; Boott,i863 ; Lindley and Richardson in the same year (1865); Greville 
and Harvey, 1866 ; Arnott, 1868. The others were Burchell, 1863 ; Woods, 1864 ; 
Daubeny, 1867. 
