
          which may or may not be acceptable.
May I beg you to take charge of
them?

I have not yet received the
3r & 4th [fusc.?] of your [crossed out: Ir] annuals—Since I
wrote to you (I think) I have undertaken 
the Editorship of a reduced Encyclopedia
(only 4 vols. 8rd) but to be
entirely original and popular as well
as literary & scientific. the great [?]
is to get respectable authors to contribute
to so small a work, but I have already
some of the big [hist.] names in
this country Lis W. Scott and the head.
It will work me hard for about 2 years.

You will by this time have seen
our monograph of Orthotrichum. last 
week we completed that of Tortula.
to which we have added 8 new species
and reduced nearly one third of the
species of Schultz in Nov. Act. Acad. Cos.
One [crossed out: of] from you [marked?] I think F. cosfistosa
        