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April 9th. I am going on busily with the Herbarium. At 

 night I arrange ferns for the glue-woman ; before breakfast I 

 work at Alga?, and give the day to other plants, so that I have 

 sufficient variety to keep me from wearying. 



June 2$th. You may well believe how much I was shocked 

 at seeing in the papers the account of poor Griffith's untimely 

 death. It is indeed a loss to science, such as we cannot hope 

 to see ever filled up. So much talent, such zeal and energy 

 gone, just as they were beginning to attract universal attention, 

 and to raise his name to the first rank among botanists. He 

 was unquestionably the Broivn of India. I hope the India 

 Company may put his papers and plants in competent hands 

 for publication. There must be materials for a noble monu- 

 ment ; and he was himself so careful of the posthumous fame of 

 others, that his own ought not to be neglected. 



College breaks up in ten days, and I am going to fix myself 

 for the first part of the holidays on the shores of Dingle Bay, 

 where I hope to find many interesting plants, and to reap a 

 good harvest of Algae. 



August \Zth. On Brandon Mountain, this morning, I had the 

 pleasure of gathering for the first time Jungermannia ivooclsia ; 

 and as I think you may possibly like to cultivate it, I enclose a 

 specimen, which I hope may survive. Its position on the 

 mountain is extremely local, confined, so far as I could observe, 

 to a single short ledge near the summit, having a deep preci- 

 pice on one side. There, however, it is plentiful, quite covering 

 the rock with its brown cushions. 



I have now been a month in Kerry, but have found few 

 plants of interest. Mr. Whitla, of Belfast, is with me. I wish 

 you were also. Eriocaulon is in several of the lakes here. 

 The coast but bad for Algee. However, at Valencia I gathered 

 Nitophyllum Hilliee, growing on rocks, which was a good find. 

 Mrs. Griffiths has only got it thrown up. Having little in the 

 sea, I took to the fields, and have been learning the names of a 

 few agarics with the help of Berkeley's well- written volume ; 

 but I am often wishing for a figure to refer to, there are so 

 many shades of difference in a genus of 350 species, and some 

 of these mere shadows, little evident without ocular demon- 

 stration. 



