390 LIFE OF OLAF SWARTZ. 
Now I am satisfied it was not so, and thank you most heartily 
for the truly amiable and interesting contents of your letter. 
“ Honoured by your friendship, I should think myself un- 
deserving, if I not offered you my best wishes for your unre- 
mitting felicity in the new connexion you have formed with — - 
the family of Mr D. Turner, on which I congratulate you 
from the bottom of my heart. Twenty-two years ago, I 
experienced a like happiness as yours, but mine was of short 
duration! Though nineteen years are passed, I still impre- 
cate my bad fate, to which I should not have been reconciled, 
if scientifical hard pursuits had not been my consolation. 
*'lhe works of Wahlenberg, his Flora Carpathica, and 
the last of Acharius, I shall make my best to procure for you. 
A copy of my petty * Muscologia Suecica,’ I have put aside for 
you. I must however say that the number of species it con- 
tains is very much increased since the time of its publication. 
* Remember me with my respectful compliments to Mr 
Dawson Turner, and Sir James E. Smith. 
‘O. SwanTZ." 
* August, 1818. — 
* I wish most sincerely that you have not considered me — 
one of the most ungrateful for not having acknowledged your 
kind letter of April 6th, accompanied by the highly valu- 
able present of your * Muscologia Britannica, and the four 
numbers of the * Musci Exotici ;? but the reason is that I have 
first just now handled these precious proofs of your friendship, 
not knowing at this moment by what means I have obtained - 
them, on account of which I beg you to accept my sincerest - 
thanks and assurances of my boundless obligation. I can : 
~ hardly explain the satisfaction I felt at the sight of your beau- - 
... tiful performances, and I am sure the further perusal will - 
p afford me a vast deal of pleasure and perhaps opportunities 
. for remarks which you permit me to communicate. e 
_ “ That M. Schwügrichen has not acknowledged your lette! 
38 very singular. I know him as a very good, amiable, and 
Attentive man. His work on the Musci I think very merito- 
