Biographical entry Harvey, William Henry (1811 - 1866)

Summary

William Henry 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, S. C. Ducker, ed., Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988, 413 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Ducker, Sophie C., 'Harvey, William Henry (1811-1866), botanist', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 4, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1972, pp. 357-358. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040406b.htm. Details

Conference Papers

• Wyse Jackson, P. and Jones, M. Spencer, 'W.H. Harvey's Bryzoans from Australia (1854-1856)', in D.P. Gordon, A.M. Smith, J.A. Grant-Mackie (ed.), Bryzoans in Space and Time: Proceedings of the 10th International Bryozoology Association Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington , N.Z. 1995, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, 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, vol. 115, 1995, pp. 213-223. Details
• Lucas, H.S., 'A Pioneer Botanist in Victoria', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 50, no. 12, 1933, pp. 186-190. Details
• Maiden, J.H., 'Records of Victorian Botanists', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 25, 1908, pp. 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, vol. xlii, 1908, pp. 60-132. Details
• Maiden, J.H., 'Records of Tasmanian Botanists', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1909, pp. 9-29. Details
• Webb, D. A., 'William Henry Harvey...and the tradition of systematic botany', Hermathena, vol. 103, 1966. Details
• Willis, J.H., 'Botanical Pioneers in Victoria', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 66, 1949, pp. 83-89; 103-109; 123-107. Details

Online Resources

• 'Harvey, William H', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-853003. Details