The foregoing outline of Henfrey's activities shows that they were devoted wholly to the spread of the Newer Botany in this country. The means employed included the publication of reviews and abstracts, the editing of translations of the more notable books, the founding of journals, and the writing of text-books. Moreover by his own investigations he kept close touch with the modern work and was indeed the means of corroborating and often materially advancing many of the larger problems before putting them into general circulation in this country. And yet, in spite of this complete devotion of his life to the cause, the New Botany found no permanent place in this country till twenty years after Henfrey's death. Botanically speaking, the organisation and rise of taxonomy was the ruling pre-occupation of the period under consideration, a direct outcome of colonial expansion and consolidation. Fed on unlimited supplies of new material from the ends of the earth the taxonomic habit became supreme. What could an isolated student and recluse like Henfrey do to stem this flood? Circumstances were too strong for him, and founding no immediate school it remained for a later generation to take up the task. Though the history of the establishment of the New Botany in England lies outside the province of this lecture, it is instructive, as a contrast in methods, to note the manner of its accomplishment. Henfrey, who relied on his pen, had proved ineffective to bring about a revolution. Twenty years later it fell to Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, then a young man, to succeed where Henfrey had failed. By his enlightened teaching and personal magnetism, Thiselton-Dyer aroused a widespread interest in laboratory botany. But the matter was not allowed to rest there. Holding as he did an important post at Kew, the strategic centre, he was able to obtain appointments in the chief Colleges and Universities of the country for the recruits whom he had attracted. In this way, by the exercise of an acute intelligence amounting to statesmanship, and in a very short period of time, the New Botany became everywhere firmly established. FOOTNOTE: [106] Not the William Griffith of the last chapter. WILLIAM HENRY HARVEY 1811-1866 BY R. LLOYD PRAEGER Early influences--Natural History--his "pretensions" to science--choice of a profession--visit to London--early publication--South Africa--investigation of its flora--appointed Keeper of University Herbarium, Dublin--Algology with Mrs Griffiths--_Phycologia Britannica_--appointed to Professorship--visit to America--lectures and travels--_Nereis Boreali-Americana_--travels in the East--Australia--New Zealand--Fiji--return home--election to chair at Trinity College, Dublin--_Phycologia Australica_--marriage and death--Harvey's limitations--his reception of Darwinism--personal characteristics.