LIFE OF OLAF SWARTZ. 387 
We think it unnecessary to quote the remarks on many 
genera and species of Mosses which Dr Swartz added to the 
above letter, simply because his views, though then novel, are 
now adopted by all muscologists. 
* SrockHoLM, April 4, 1811. 
ze ‘My Dear FniEND,— Pray do not consider it as a neglect: 
from my side, to have not acknowledged your beloved letter 
of the 23d Sept. sooner. I did not receive your kind send- 
ings before very lately, (15th March,) still congratulating me 
that I have been fortunate enough to do it at last. Accept 
now, dear friend, my sincerest thanks for all these proofs of 
your disinterested inclination towards me. I cannot express 
it so as I feel it. I was enchanted at the excellent parcel of 
the Jungermannie ; nothing could be more acceptable. You 
can easily judge that yourself from your own experience. 
But how greatly I am not obliged to you for it! For the 
other communications of your own Memoir on the Nepal 
Mosses, as well as of the 9th Part of the Linnean Transac- 
tions, so generously given away to me, I am also very much in 
your debt. How sorry I am not to want an opportunity of 
sending you a copy of the Synopsis Filicum, which you desire. 
Ihave requested Dr Smith to part with his, and I shall readily 
transmit him another again. The account of your intended 
trip to Adam's Peak in Ceylon,* could not but most pleas- 
ingly surprize me. May kind heaven preserve you! What — 
Jour de féte shall it not once be to me, to hear those consoling "i 
news, that you have saluted your Lares ipid ! How often 
shall I not think of you ! 
* The sundry parcels from MM. Brown and Smith, which 
you obligingly joined to yours, I also received safe and have 
acquainted them both about it. I long very much to attain 
the pleasing moment of perusing your history of the Junger- 
cone perhaps did you never see that part of Weber's and 
* An excursion indeed once endi, and for which considerable 5 
tony: were cas pert but never carried into execution. , hee 
