
          an excellent work but unluckily written in German so taht the plates
only are useful to me. A very good work has also appeared in
Germany within a few months - viz. a system of fungi - large as well 
as microscopic by [C.G.] Nees von Esenbeck, with 44 beautifully colored plates
full of [?]. This book is also written in German. The celebrated
[Robert] Brown has not yet given us his 2nd vol. of the Prodromus Fl. Nova 
Hollandia & perhaps never will much to my annoyance as I
have 500 New Holland plants without a name to any.

I must now communicate some melancholy intelligence.
Poor Stewart who has been very unwell for some months grew
much worse a few days ago and on Friday breathed his last
the day before your parcel arrived. He is a great loss to us &
certainly heastened his dissolution by hard study. the parcel you
sent him also came to me as a present from his
father. You will therefore recollect & note that I 
have in my poassission the species contained
in both the parcels you sent. I arranged Stewart's 
botanical collection for sale at the request of his friends & shall
purchase the best of his things. In the parcel I send I trust you
will find some things worthy of your acceptance. You will find
about 100 species of British musci & if you wish for a greater supply of particular
species name them & I will do my best. My stock in many is
low which must account for some indifferent specimens. By another
season I shall have more & be able to send you other species.

The plants I am most desirous of obtaining are all cryptogamous
plant except fungi which do no carry in general but some do bear it as
[Sphoeria urdeor-puccinias?] do. Particularly I wish for ferns, lichens, musci
& marine alga particularly fuci & ulvae [confero?] both sea, land, and fresh water 
if named will be very welcome. It is impossible to examine them after
being dried therefor if not named when fresh they seldom can be. I
have a friend here who will cooperate with me in collecting for you
& who is[?] fers & musci. when it is convenient for you therefore
to send [added: any] duplicates of those [?] they will be thankfully received by
him. I do not confess myself a minerologist & cannot at present name any one
        