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* T received thy kind — of June the I6th, and the seeds and book 
of Doctor Dillenius, last night. I take it to be the completest of that 
as little of mosses, as he id of the plants that grew beyond Mount 
Lebanon, or in America.”—p. 161. 
The subjoined extracts are from a Jetter of Collinson, m 1743-4. 
* Friend Joun :—The prices of microscopes are advanced to a guinea; 
so | have only sent hee one, for thyself, and desire thy acceptance of 
it, with a book. * At present, can give thee no assurance of any 
new contributors, ine the Duke of Richmond and iller continue, 
who love new things; but whether so small a subscription will coun- 
tervail thy going Srreng | the Conte, in New England, I must submit to 
thy consideration. Dr. Dillenius has writ thee a letter ;—is 
greatly delighted with the rat seeds, they are so good ; says that thou 
art the only man that ever did things to the purpose. The Ce 
serving as the rest.”—p. 
That is, to keep in mind a genus Bartramia. The genus 
dedicated to him by Linneus, in the Flora Zeylanica, del 
proved to be only a species of Triumfetta ; and the name was 
subsequently given by Hedwig to a fine genus of mosses. 
Bartram and Collinson occasionally make themselves merry at 
the expense of Dr. Witt, of Germantown, a remarkable character 
in his day, who dabbled in divination as well as botany, and was 
a little touched with quasi-Swedenborgianism, as would seem 
from the first part of the following extract. The latter part tes- 
tifies to Bartram’s accuracy of observation about the pine-cones. 
**T received the nails, calico, Russia linen, and the clothes for my 
boys : all which are very good and well chosen, and g give great satisfac- 
tion. The only thing that gives me any uneasiness, is, that thee hath 
sent more than what is my due. 
i =) ogee oracles be ceased, and thee hath not the spirit of di- 
Histone Wal according to our friend Doctor Witt, we friends that 
conversation at great distances one from another. Now, if this be fa 
so,—if I love thee sincerely—and thy love and friendship be so to me 
—thee must have a spiritual feeling and sense of what particular sorls 
of things will give earns.) ; and doth not thy actions make it man- 
oe for, what | send to thee for, thee hath chosen of just such sorts 
colors as I wanted. Na , as my wife and | are one, so she is ini- 
tiated into this spiritual union; for thee has sent her a piece of calico so 
directly to her mind, that she saith that if she had been there ’ 
she « have pleased her fancy better. * fi 
