William Henry Harvey

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William Henry Harvey

William Henry Harvey (born February 5, 1811 in Summerville near Limerick in Ireland, † May 15, 1866 in Torquay in the English county of Devon ) was a professor of botany , algae researcher , draftsman , illustrator and lithographer . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Harv. "

Life

Born the youngest child of a wealthy Quaker businessman, Harvey has been interested in nature research from a young age. At the age of 15 he was already a specialist in algae research. In 1836 he followed his brother to South Africa as a colonial official , but continued his academic work there. He was the first to write a scientific description of the country's flora. On his return in 1844 he got a position at Trinity College in Dublin and was soon appointed professor. In the years 1854-1856 he undertook a large collecting and research trip in Australia. Many new species were discovered by him. In 1857 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Despite Harvey's critical attitude towards Charles Darwin's theory of evolution , Darwin held him in high regard as a great botanist. Harvey, who was rather reserved in dealing with fellow human beings, was also a great draftsman and illustrator, who himself documented his finds so carefully that the illustrations are still considered exemplary today. Suffering from poor health, Harvey died prematurely of tuberculosis .

Dedication names

The genus Harveya Hook was named in his honor . the plant family of summer root plants (Orobanchaceae).

Publications

  • 1833: Div.II. Confervoideae. Div.III. Gloiocladeae. In: WJ Hooker (Ed.): The English flora of Sir James Edward Smith 5. London.
  • 1834: Algologhical illustrations. No. 1 Remarks on some British algae and descriptions of a new species recently added to our flora. In: WJ Hooker (Ed.): Journal of botany 1. pp. 296-305.
  • 1838: The genera of South African plants. Cape Town.
  • Description of Ballia, a new genus of Algae. In: Hooker's journal of botany and Kew Garden miscellany. Volume 2.
  • 1844: Description of a minute alga from the coast of Ireland. In: Annals and Magazine of Natural History 14, pp. 27-28.
  • 1844: Description of a new British species of Callithamnion (C. pollexfenii) Annals and Magazine of Natural History 14, pp. 109-131.
  • 1844: Algae of Tasmania. In: Journal of botany 3. London, pp. 428-454.
  • 1847: Phycologia Britannica. (Plates 73-78). Reeve & Banham, London.
  • 1848: Phycologia Britannica. (Plates 147-216). Reeve & Banham, London.
  • 1847: Nereis Ausrtralis or Algae of the Southern Ocean. In: Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 22 (Science). London, pp. 525-566.
  • 1848: Directions for Collecting and Preserving Algae. In: The American journal of science and arts , II, 6: pp. 42–45.
  • 1849: A Manual of the British Marine Algae… John van Voorst, London.
  • 1849: Phycologia Britannica. (Plates 217-294). Reeve & Banham, London.
  • 1850: Phycologia Britannica. (Plates 295-354). Reeve & Banham, London.
  • 1850: Observations on the Marine Flora of the Atlantic States. In: Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Pp. 79-80.
  • 1851: Nereis Boreali-Americana: … Part I - Melanospermaea. Smithsonian Institution.
  • 1853: Nereis Boreali-Americana: … Part II - Rhodospermeae.
  • 1855: Some account of the marine botany of the colony of Western Australia. In: Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 22. pp. 525-566.
  • 1855: Algae. In: JDHooker: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage 2: Flora Nova-Zelandiae II. London, pp. 211-266, Plates 107-121.
  • 1857: Nereis Boreali-Americana: … Part III - Chlorospermeae.
  • 1857: Short description of some new British algae, with two plates. In: Natural History Review 4. Dublin, pp. 201-204.
  • 1858: List of Arctic Algae, Chiefly Compiled from Collections Brought Home by Officers of the Recent Searching Expeditiions . In: Smithsonian Contrib. to Knowledge. Part III, supl. 2, pp. 132-134.
  • 1860: Algae, pp. 242-383, Pl. 185-196. In: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, Part III. Flora Tasmaniae. Vol. 2 (Ed. By JD Hooker) L. Reeve, London.
  • 1860-1933: Flora Capensis; being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & port Natal. London (volumes 1–3 together with Otto Wilhelm Sonder ; was later continued by other botanists)
  • 1862: Phycologia Australica. Vol 4, Pl. 181-240. London.
  • 1862: Notice of a collection of algae made on the northwest coast of North America, chiefly at Vancouver's Island, by David Lyall, Esq., MD, RN, in the years 1859–1861. In: The Journal of the Linnean Society 6. pp. 157-177.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. (bgbm.org)

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Harvey, William Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English botanist and algae researcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Summerville near Limerick , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1866
Place of death Torquay , Devon