
          Glasgow May 29th, 1823.

My dear Sir

Being in London during the last month I had the
very great pleasure of finding at the apartments of the Linnean
Society your valuable parcel of plants sent through
Mr. G. Dow & your truly welcome letters. I was the more gratified
perhaps from the circumstances of your former packet 
addressed to me being lost: an accident I can by no means 
account for. The only chance for its recovery is to inform by what
vessel it came, to what port & to whom addressed. I made enquiry 
at the Custom House Liverpool & nothing of the kind 
was received there. Many of the phanerogamous plants are 
quite new to me; so are some of the Cryptogamia. These latter
I have now gone through with considerable care & made my 
remarks upon: but as they would occupy more than the 
just sent I shall reserve them till I sent again by a
vessel that you may not pay too much for postage.
Perrin's plants are very interesting. I shall be delighted to 
receive further communications from you & shall on my 
part endeavour to make you the best return in my power.
I am more than ever anxious to obtain additions to my herbarium,
because I am now engaged in preparing an Universal
Flora in English, a work wh [which] had never yet been attempted
& for which I must have an extensive Hortus Siccus. 
De Candolle will send me over the sheets, as printed,
of his Synopsis Plantarum, so that I shall have all the 
advantages of that book before its publication: and I shall 
add all the new species I can, & give the authorities &
stations. You complain & justly of the various & contradictory 
names given by botanists to mosses. This would 
not happen with good figures, as well as descriptions, were
given of the species: a desideratum I am in some measure
attempting to supply in the Musci Exotici, when I have 
yet many important subjects to figure, besides some of those 
I have had the pleasure of receiving from you. With regard to

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I have many duplicates of Nepal mosses to share with you. Some charming [spec? [specimens?]] [&?]
curious of Lyellia crispa; & I have lately recd [received] from [Mr?] Holland, which I never expected to possess a
duplicate of, some Dawsonia polytrichoides!
        