820 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
and more detailed information in Mr. Druce’s Flora of Berkshire, 
p- elv, and in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1826, p.466. The only 
notice we have found of H. A. Noehden is the following brief 
mention in the Annals of Botany, ii. 206, under the date Nov. 1, 
1804: ‘About the same time died at Géttingen, too early for the 
sciences, Dr. John [sic] Adolphus Noéhden, known also in this 
country as co- editor of the kee Journal, and author of several 
botanical papers.’’ One such paper— Specimen inauguralis in quo 
de argumentis contra Helvigi theoriam de generatione museorum 
quedam disserit’’—was pu ed at G6 dttingen in 17 7, and 
another, on the form and disteibution of pollen, in the first volume 
of Schrader’s Journal. To the third volume of this he contributed ~ 
a paper on the position of botany in oe the result of the 
visit to which the letters refer. It tains a very full an 
interesting account of the Banksian soieotide and other herbaria, 
and would be well worth Sane did space permit; but it occu- 
pies forty-three pages, and moreover is not complete, the promised 
continuation never having been published.—Ep. Journ. Bor.] 
London, Aug. 1, 1799. 
that half of them are not worth public And unluckily my 
present situation affords me neither time nor inclination to wo 
or diction. You will have to ae ut things before 
you as simply as if I was talking. However, I do not write w th 
, an of a 
always hold dear for the sake of the driatdliiess3 be lavished upon 
me. I landed at Yarmouth about ten o’clock on the night of 
Thursday, July 17. One of my ht walks next day, as you may 
readily suppose, se me to Mr. Turner’s, but, imagine my bad luck ! 
he was from home and not avpebted yank till the following day. 
pelled to remain in Yarmouth. On Satu urday morning I again 
went first thing to Turner’s, and found him at ho ome, but so busy 
that I could not get more than a few — wit ith him. He invite 
me to spend the evening, and I met with an extremely friendly 
reception. He showed me his different ¢ collections. His collection 
of mosses is re ee remarkable and is almost confined to English 
ones. Thes well as the other eryptogamous plants, were how- 
ever labelled. eu inalies to the Linnean System. Dickson is now the 
