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Reports problem publishing JW's music. Relates adventures of churchmen and students at Cambridge.

Introduces Theodore Lyman, of Boston, [Massachusetts], who sends small parcel of local indigenous plants and is about to embark on a tour of Europe before studying at Oxford. Often thinks of his visit to Norfolk and to [James] Crowe's Salicetum and observing 'Verbascum pulverulentum', asks after Smith's Norfolk friends. Correspondence with [William] Kirby, will send Kirby, [Alexander] Macleay and [Thomas] Marsham insects. Sends some local plants, including a 'Hypnum'. Peck's authority incorrectly quoted in [Frederick] Pursh's "Flora of North America": 'Diapensia cuneifolia' is a southern plant and not found in the White Mountains, received a a specimen of it from [Henry] Muhlenberg. His local Botanic Garden struggling for lack of funds, local merchants have contributed to grow exotic plants but it is has few North American plants, a young man has been engaged to gather plants from the US interior.