310 MEMOIR OF 
able by the accompaniment of some Jungermanniz 
and other cryptogame of the new Forest.” 
On the 8th of May, 1818, Hobson received 
from Dr. Hooker a letter acknowledging the 
receipt of the first volume of his Mosses, in the 
following satisfactory terms:—“My dear sir, 
your packet J received yesterday, and am very 
much obliged to you for the copy of your mosses. 
They are very correctly named, and got up fuse 
as I could wish them.” 
As this volume was illustrated with dried spe- 
cimens of Mosses and Hepatice, instead of engrav- 
ings, a few copies only could be furnished, and 
Hobson wrote to Mr. Scott, of Edinburgh, June 
13th, 1818, to inform him that ‘he had received 
his kind order for the first volume of Mosses and 
Hepatic, with the £1. note inclosed, and that the 
other volume would be published as soon as 
sufficient materials could be collected.” 
Mr. Greville, the distinguished author of the 
Flora Edinensis, in a letter dated Wyastone, 
near Ashbourne, the 9th of August, 1819, thus 
addresses Hobson, ‘“ Dear Sir, since I had the 
pleasure of seeing you, I think I have been fortu- 
