Harvey, William Henry (1811 - 1866)

Summary

William Harvey was Professor of Botany at Trinity College Dublin between 1848 and 1866. He travelled in Australia between 1854 and 1856 acquiring a large natural history collection.

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

• William Henry Harvey - Records, 1855 - 1860; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

• William Henry Harvey - Records, 1854, MS 7527; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

• Harvey, W. H., The Contented Botanist: Letters of W.H. Harvey About Australia and the Pacific (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), 413 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Ducker, Sophie C., 'Harvey, William Henry (1811-1866), botanist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 4: 1851 - 1890 D-J, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1972), pp. 357-358. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040406b.htm. Details
• Parnell, John, '"William cares for nothing but weeds": W.H. Harvey (1811 - 1866) and systematic botany in Trinity College Dublin' in Treasures of the mind: a Trinity College Dublin quatercentenary exhibition, Scott, David, ed. (London: Sotheby’s, 1992), pp. 79-88. Details

Conference Papers

• Wyse Jackson, P.; and Jones, M. Spencer, 'W.H. Harvey's Bryozoans from Australia (1854-1856)', in Bryozoans in Space and Time: Proceedings of the 10th International Bryozoology Association Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington , N.Z. 1995 edited by D.P. Gordon, A.M. Smith, J.A. Grant-Mackie (Wellington: National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, 1996), pp. 401-412.. Details

Edited Books

• Fisher, L.J. ed., Memoir of W. H. Harvey, with Selections From His Journal and Correspondence (London: 1869). Details

Journal Articles

• Ducker, Sophie C., 'W. H. Harvey in New South Wales: Letters by the Phycologist W. H. Harvey, Written in New South Wales in 1855', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 115 (1995), 213-223. Details
• Lucas, A. H.S., 'A Pioneer Botanist in Victoria', The Victorian naturalist, 50 (12) (1933), 186-190. Details
• McAleer, John, '"The troubles of collecting": William Henry Harvey and the practicalities of natural-history collecting in Britain's nineteenth-century world', British journal for the history of science, 55 (1) (2022), 81-100. https://doi.org/1017/S0007087421000704. Details
• Parnell, John A. N.; Womersley, H. Bryan S.; Sinkora, Doris, Vaughan, Alison and Huisman, John M., 'W. H. Harvey's Australian Travelling Set of Algae in the Herbarium of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and the National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL), Australia', Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 110B (2) (2010), 119-61. Details
• Webb, D. A., 'William Henry Harvey...and the tradition of systematic botany', Hermathena, 103 (1966). Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1378128. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/259531. Details
• 'Harvey, William H (1811-1866)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-853003. Details

Theses

• Cave, Eleanor Catherine, 'Flora Tasmaniae: Tasmanian Naturalists and Imperial Botany, 1829-1860', PhD thesis, University of Tasmania, 2012, 385 pp. Details

See also

• Ducker, Sophie C., 'Port Phillip Heads: a phycological saga', Phycologia, 22 (1983), 431-443. https://doi.org/10.2216/i0031-8884-22-4-4. Details
• Henderson, M. Helen; and Henderson, William G., The greater prize than gold: Augustus Oldfield, nineteenth century botanical collector and ethnographer (Perth, W.A.: The Book Reality Experience, 2018), 520 pp. Details
• Maiden, J. H., 'Records of Victorian Botanists', The Victorian naturalist, 25 (1908), 101-117. Details
• Maiden, J. H., 'Records of Australian botanists:- (a) general; (b) New South Wales', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, 42 (1908), 60-132. Details
• Maiden, J. H., 'Records of Tasmanian Botanists', Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1909 (1909), 9-29. Details
• Willis, J. H., 'Botanical pioneers in Victoria - III', Victorian naturalist, 66 (7) (1949), 123-8. Details
• Willis, J. H., Botanical Pioneers in Victoria, vol. 66 ([Melbourne]: [Brown Prior Anderson], 1949), 19 pp. Details