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“X have carefully gone over your little work on the Mosses, and am 
particularly pleased with it, and the manner in wdiich you illustrate each 
lesson. I hope yon will meet with sufficient encouragement to induce you 
to bring out more volumes in illustration of some of the other classes of 
cryptogamic plants.” 
G. M. Osborne, Esq., M.D., Dundee. 
“ I was quite delighted with your little work on Mosses.” 
Robert Hudson, Esq., F.R.S., &c., Surrey. 
“ I cannot sufficiently express to you the gratification I have derived 
from your most instructive and interesting little book on Mosses.” 
Thomas Sopwith, Esq., F.R.S., E.G.S., &c., Allenheads. 
“ Your gem of a work serves as an admirable stepping-stone to Hooker's 
Cryptogamic Flora." 
T. Lister, Esq., Barnsley. 
“The ‘Twenty Lessons’ is indeed a gem. I was particularly struck 
with the beauty of the little volume. It w r ell illustrates how feeble the at- 
tempts of our most gifted artists are, when compared with the works of the 
Great Artist of Nature.” 
Dr Drummond, Newburgh. 
“ Mr Gardiner's ‘ lessons on Mosses’ is universally admired, as it de- 
serves to be.” 
Miss C. ILenslow, St Albans. 
“ I doubt not that it will much facilitate the study of this interesting 
tribe of plants ; and I shall certainly most strongly recommend it to those 
of my friends who have any botanical taste.” 
The Rev. A. Bloxam, Twycross. 
“ I much admire your little book ; it is written in an excellent spirit, 
and I shall be very happy to recommend it.” 
Thomas Bodenham, Esq., Shrewsbury. 
“ The tone is so amiable and instructive for the young admirers of na- 
ture, that it cannot fail to do good wherever it becomes known.” 
Captain Abraham, Frimley, Bagshot. 
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“ I prize the little book most highly myself, and find it universally ad- 
mired.” 
Mrs Blagg, St Albans. 
“ Miss Moxon approves of it exceedingly, and will do as much as she 
can to promote the sale of so useful and instructive a publication ” 
. The Lodge, Twickenham. 
These Testimonials, to which might have "been added a host 
of similar ones, are given purely with the view of showing 
that the Author’s humble efforts to promote a taste for the 
study of nature have been generally approved of. 
