mean it when J say, it will be a pleasure to me to help you, and 

 I am especially delighted' to learn that you consent to join with 

 us in <f^j.couraging such work as has been done on the Mosses of Cana- 

 da, within the last five years. Of course, Kindberg is the scape- 

 goat, but "acoun is largely to blame, as well. Why , would you be- 

 live it, he does not know iwhat half his types are, and many of thra 

 are not in his collection at all. His exsiccatae, are badly named, 

 and an awful mixture at that. Ten years penal servitude, at work 

 trying to undo the mischief that has been done, would not be too 

 great a punishment for such a misdemeanor. As for nardot, he i s not 

 much better, he slaps on names in the most careless manner, lacks 

 most of our American Exsiccatae, and a great part of the local lit- 

 erature, does not posses a complete file of either the nazette or 

 the Bulletin, and only the plates of Sullivants Teones, without the 

 descriptions, distributes specimens without dates or localities or 

 exact habitat, and depreciates all work that is done in America, in 

 a most ungenerous fashion. We have some very strong names on our 

 list of sympathisers, Underwood, Barnes, T'acoun ( at aast) Pringle, 

 nanby, Small, Heller, Grout, Leiberg, Williams, Estans, Howe, and 



many others representing many of the states, and a quantity of col 

 lectors and duplicates. We shall help each other to name the collet 

 ions made, exchange, rid loan specimns for comparison, and, never 

 send nay unnamed specimens abroad, without keeping an exact dupli- 

 cate, having previously studied the specim® , and supply no bulk 

 collections for distribution, in foreign exsiccatae. 

 T enclose Aulacomnion turgidum, it is rare in fruit. 



