William Henry Harvey
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William Henry Harvey 1811-66, Irish botanist. An authority on algae, he wrote A Manual of the British Algae (1841), Phycologia Britannica (4 vol., 1846-51), and Phycologia Australica (5 vol., 1858-63), which are classics in their field. He spent several years in South Africa, and as a result of his studies there, he wrote, with O. W. Sonder, Flora Capensis (7 vol. in 11, 1859-1933).
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