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[HARVEY, WILLIAM HENRY]. Memoir of W.H. Harvey, Late Professor of Botany, Trinity College, Dublin. With Selections from His Journal and Correspondence.
London: Bell and Daldy, 1869. Octavo, 372 pp, uncoloured portrait frontispiece. Modern binder's cloth, scarce. Compiled anonymously by Harvey's cousin Lydia Fischer. William Henry Harvey (1811–1866) holds an important place in the history of Australian botany. He spent some years searching Australian waters for seaweeds and published his five volume magnum opus Phycologia Australica in 1858. He was a friendly correspondent with Charles Darwin but wrote an anti Origin review in the Edinburgh Review. Ferguson 10276a.
Offered for AUD 400.00 = appr. US$ 318.80 by: Andrew Isles Natural History Books - Book number: 27488