I cannot do better than conclude with some words in which Asa Gray summed up Harvey's work and character shortly after his decease[118]: "He was a keen observer and a capital describer. He investigated accurately, worked easily and readily with microscope, pencil, and pen, wrote perspicuously, and where the subject permitted, with captivating grace; affording, in his lighter productions, mere glimpses of the warm and poetical imagination, delicate humour, refined feeling, and sincere goodness which were charmingly revealed in intimate intercourse and correspondence, and which won the admiration and the love of all who knew him well. Handsome in person, gentle and fascinating in manners, genial and warm-hearted but of very retiring disposition, simple in his tastes and unaffectedly devout, it is not surprising that he attracted friends wherever he went, so that his death will be sensibly felt on every continent and in the islands of the sea." FOOTNOTES: [107] _Memoir of W. H. Harvey, M.D., F.R.S., with selections from his journal and correspondence._ London, 1869. [108] An essay on the indigenous grasses of Ireland. 8vo. Dublin, 1808. [109] Published as Vol. V., Part 1, of Smith's _English Flora_. [110] Vol. XLII. p. 274, 1866. [111] Vol. IV. p. 236, 1866. [112] _Flora Capensis_, Vol. I. p. 8. [113] The algae of Beechey's Voyage. [114] Vol. I., plate XL. [115] Darwin's _Life and Letters_, Vol. II. p. 314. [116] For 1860, pp. 145-146. [117] _More Letters of Charles Darwin_, Vol. I. p. 166. [118] _American Journal of Science and Arts_, Vol. XLII. p. 277. [Illustration: _Plate XVIII_ MILES JOSEPH BERKELEY] MILES JOSEPH BERKELEY 1803-1889 BY GEORGE MASSEE Narrative--early interest in Natural History--Zoological publications--Algae--Fungi--character and magnitude of Berkeley's work in systematic Mycology--exotic fungi--co-operation with Broome--morphology of Basidiomycetes--_Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany_--pioneer work in plant pathology--the potato disease--personal characteristics.