William Henry Harvey

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William Henry Harvey (1811-1866) was an Irish botanist.

He was born at Limerick, Ireland, in 1811, the youngest of 11 children. At the age of 15 he had already established algae as his overriding interest: "To be useless, various, and abstruce is a sufficient recommendation of a science to make it pleasing to me".

Harvey was an authority on algae and bryophytes (mosses), and author of A Manual of the British Algae (1841), Phycologia Britannica (4 vols., 1846–51), and Phycologia Australica (5 vol., 1858–63). He spent several years in South Africa, and was the author, with Otto Wilhelm Sonder, of the Flora Capensis (7 vol. in 11, 1859–1933). Harvey's main algal herbarium is in Trinity College, Dublin.

Harvey's discovery in 1831 of the moss Hookeria laetevirens at Killarney, new to Ireland, led to a lifelong friendship with Sir William Jackson Hooker, who was then Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University. Hooker recognized at once the extraordinary talent of the shy young man of twenty, and lent him books. Soon afterwords Hooker invited him to contribute the section on algae to his British Flora (1833) as well as the section on algae for The Botany of Captain Beechy's Voyage.

In 1835 Harvey went to South Africa, where his brother was Colonial Treasurer, and succeeded him in the following year. He came home in 1842. In 1853 he made a three year voyage, visiting India, Australia and the South Sea Islands. On his return he published further important books dealing with the botany of North America and South Africa.

Harvey was curator of the Trinity College Herbarium (TCD) and Professor of Botany of the Royal Dublin Society.

His Phycologia Britannica was published in 1846 - 1851 and his publication of Nereis Australis Or Algae of the Southern Ocean (1847 - 49) along with other publications established his reputation. His Phycologia Australica represents one of the most important books on phycology in the 19th century. Published in five volumes between 1858 and 1863 it is the result of his extensive collecting on the Australian shores.

By the time Harvey set foot in Western Australia he had already established himself as a leading phycologist having published several large works. He earned the title: "father of Australian Phycology".

About 600 specimens from Ireland, Ceylon, Friendly Islands, Australia and Tasmania collected by Harvey are in store in the Ulster Museum Herbarium (BEL), almost 90 of which are in the 5th volume of the William Thompson collection in the Ulster Museum, catalogue numbers: F8848 - F8937. However his primary collection is still in the in the TCD Herbarium attached to Botany School building of Trinity College. There are also collections of Harvey's specimens in: The Botany Department of University College, Cork, Ireland; West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL), Melbourne, Australia; National Herbarium of New South Wales (NSW), Sydney, Australia and the Herbarium of St. Andrews University (STA).

Harvey was an honorary M.D. of Dublin University (1844) and F.R.S. (1858). His portrait is in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.


[edit] Publications

  • Haervey, William Henry. 1833. Div.II. Confervoideae. Div.III. Gloiocladeae. In, Hooker, W.J. (Ed.) The English flora of Sir James Edward Smith 5. London.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1834. Algologhical illustrations. No. 1 Remarks on some British algae and descriptions of a new species recently added to our flora. J. Bot., Hooker 1: 296 - 305.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1838. The genera of South African plants. Cape Topwn, 429 pp.
  • Harvey, William Henry. Description of Ballia, a new genus of Algae. - Hooker's Journ. Bot.' Bd 2
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1844. Description of a minute alga from the coast of Ireland. Annals and Magagazine of Natural History. 14: 27 - 28.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1844. Description of a new British species of Callithamnion (C. pollexfenii) Annals and Magagazine of Natural History. 14: 109 - 131.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1844. Algae of Tasmania, J. of Bot., London, 3:428 - 454.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1847. Phycologia Britannica. Plates 73 - 78). Reeve & Banham, London.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1848. Phycologia Britannica. Plates 147 - 216). Reeve & Banham, London.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1847. Nereis Ausrtralis or Algae of the Southern Ocean:... London.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1848. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Algae. Am. Journ., Sci. and Arts, II,6: 42 - 45.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1849. A Manual of the British Marine Algae... John van Voorst, London.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1849. Phycologia Britannica. Plates 217 - 294). Reeve & Banham, London.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1850. Phycologia Britannica. Plates 295 - 354). Reeve & Banham, London.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1850. Observations on the Marine Flora of the Atlantic States. Proc. Am. Assn. Adv. Sci., pp. 79 - 80.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1851. Nereis Boreali-Americana:... Part I.- Melanospermaea. Smithsonian Institution.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1853. Nereis Boreali-Americana:... Part II.- Rhodospermeae.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1855. Some account of the marine botany of the colony of Western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 22: 525-566.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1855. Algae. In J.D.Hooker, The Botany of the Antartic Voyage 2: Flora Nova-Zelandiae II. London, 211 - 266, pl. 107 - 121.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1857. Nereis Boreali-Americana:... Part III.- Chlorospermeae.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1857. Short description of some new British algae, with two plates. Nat. Hist. Rev. 4: 201 - 204.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1858. List of Arctic Algae, Chiefly Compiled from Collections Brought Home by Officers of the Recent Searching Expeditiions. Smithsonian Contrib. to Knowledge. Part III, Supl. 2: 132 - 134.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1860. Algae. Pages 242 - 383, pl.185- 196 in: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, Part III. Flora Tasmaniae. Vol. 2 (Ed. by J.D,Hooker). L.Reeve, London.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1862. Phycologia Australica. Vol 4, Pl. 181-240., London.
  • Harvey, William Henry. 1862. Notice of a collection of algae made on the northwest coast of North America, chiefly at Vancouver's Island, by David Lyall, Esq., M.D., R.N., in the years 1859 - 1861. J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 6: 157 - 177.

[edit] References

  • Blackler, H. 1977. Harvey's Australian Algae in the Herbarium of Mrs Margaret Gatty in the Departmment of Botany of the University of St Andrew's (STA), Scotland. Taxon 26: 495 - 496.
  • Gordon, R.B. 1975. A collection of Wm. H. Harvey's Australian algae at West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Taxon 24: 628.
  • Ducker, S.C. 1977. W.H.Harvey's Australian Algae. Taxon 26 166 - 168.
  • Harvey, W.H. 1834. Algolical illustrations . No. 1.- Remarks on some British algae, and descriptions of new species recently added to our flora. J. Bot., Hooker, 1:296 - 305.
  • Harvey, W.H. 1841. A Manual of the British Algae. Van Voorst, London.
  • Harvey, W.H. 1844. Description of a minute alga from the coast of Ireland. Ann. & Mag. of Nat. Hist. 14:27 - 28.
  • Harvey, W.H. 1848. Phycologia Britanica, plates 145 - 216. London.
  • Harvey, W.H. 1852 - 58a. Nereis Boreali-Americana. Part I, Melanospermae. Smithsonian Contrib. to Knowledge, 3: 1 - 150, Pl, 1-12. 1852; Part II, Rhodospermae. Ibid., 5: 1-258, Pl. 13-36. 1853. Part III, Chlorospermae. Ibid., 10: 1-140. Pl. 37-50. 1858.
  • Harvey, W.H. 1855. Some account of the marine botany of the colony of Western Australia. Trans. R. Ir. Acad. 22: 525-566.
  • Harvey, W.H. 1862. Notice of a collection of algae made on the northwest coast of North America, chiefly at Vancouver's Island, by David Lyall. Esq., M.D.,R.N., in the years 1859 - 61. J. Linn. Soc., Bot., 6:157-177.
  • Harvey, W.H. and Hooker, J.D. 1845. Botany of the Antartic voyage of H.M.discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839 - 1843... 1. Flora Antarctica. Part 1. Algae, pp. 175 - 193.
  • May, V. 1977. Harvey's Australian Algae at the National Herbarium of New South Wales (NSW), Sydney, Australia. Taxon 26: 496.
  • Morton, O. A note on W.H.Harvey's algae in the Ulster Museum. Ir. Nat. J. 19: 26.
  • Morton, O. 1981. American Algae Collected by W.H.Harvey and others, in the Ulster Museum Herbarium. Taxon 30 867 - 868.
  • Parkes, H. Introductory notes to the catalogue of marine algae housed in the herbarium of the Department of University College, Cork, Ireland. pp.16 - 22. In Cullinane, J.P. 1973. Phycology of the South Coast of Ireland. The Cork University Press, University College Cork.
  • Ross, J.H. 1976 The collection of W.H.Harvey's Australian algae at the National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL), Melbourne, Australia. Taxon 25: 525 - 526.

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