Shear-Stevens: Mycological Work of M. A. Curtis 195 



P. S. Could Dr. Leidy send me by Letter specimens of 

 some of the Microscopic Fungi observed by him on animal 

 tissues ? I should like to examine them. 



Society Hill, S. Car Apr. i6th, '53. 



Dear Sir, 



Can you add the following note to our Article 

 Since the Article on Exotic Fungi was put to press it has 

 been ascertained that Gnadenhutte is in Ohio ; & that Bishop 

 Hueffel, while visiting the Moravian Missions on the Danish 

 W. India Islands in 1827, collected many plants. 



This note can be altered to suit your taste, if you do not 

 like the cut of it. 



Very respectfully, 



M. A. Curtis. 



The footnote mentioned in this letter is to be found at the 

 bottom of page 293 of the paper as published in the bound vol- 

 ume. It also occurs in the authors' separates which are dated 

 April, 1853, instead of March as stated in the introduction to the 

 volume, page 4. 



While engaged in studying the fungi in the Schweinitz her- 

 barium, Curtis urged Tuckerman to undertake a study of the 

 lichens, advice which Tuckerman considered worth acting upon 

 as is evidenced by his published works (18, p. 341). 



Letter to Tuckerman. 



Society Hill, S. C. ]\Iarch 4th '53. 



I am engaged with Mr. Berkeley in a critical review of the 

 Fungi of Herb. Schwein. our paper (upon the exotic species) 

 to appear probably in next No. of Trans. Philad. Acad. 



Would you not serve a good end by a similar review of the 

 Lichens of that collection? 



Flora of North Carolina 



That Curtis' interest in fungi never entirely replaced his in- 

 terest in other plants is evidenced by his publication, as a part of 

 the Geological and Natural History Survey of North Carolina, of 



