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are merely calculated for home consumption, but 
have not escaped to be noticed abroad, as well: as 
Westring’s Economical History of the Lichens. 
The interrupted communication with our neigh- 
bours has made us in a melancholy manner sepa- 
rated from our friends, with whom we are in behalf 
of literature connected. This has been the case 
with me in regard to the intended Synopsis or 
Ehstoria Muscorum, in connection with my excel- 
lent and ever-lamented friend Mohr, at Kiel, who 
has eclipsed from this sublunary world during the 
gloomy interval, and left me alone! Much is done 
but more is remaining to do. Even Acharius has 
proved the adversity of the times on account of his | 
work the Lichenographia Universalis, which was to 
be printed at Gottingen, under the inspection of 
Professor Schrader (because the enterprise was too 
great for any home dealer in typography). The 
manuscript was above two thirds past sent 7m locum 
last year, and some time after the printing began 
we were shut up, that in the course of nineteen 
months no account could be had. As for present 
appearances, there are but little or no hopes yet to 
get out of the cage, if not quite perished before— 
Dum delirant. 
Thunberg and Afzelius are, as before, living at 
Upsala, and, as much as I know, both well. From 
the latter, some dissertations have appeared con- 
cerning the Swedish species of Rosa, on which he 
bestows rather more pains than some think deser- 
ving. But it must be something like the 772/olium. 
Pity that he has Jaid all his African treasures aside. 
