Despite not having received responses to either the letter he wrote to Smith some time ago or specimens of flowering 'Saxifraga' he sent to [James] Sowerby and Cambridge three years ago, he now encloses 'Saxifraga' specimens [extant] for Smith's opinion.

Numbered observations on enclosed specimens [extant]: 1. 'Saxifraga' [Smith annotation: "'caespitosa'"]; 2. 'Saxifraga' [Smith annotation: "'palmata'"]; 'Saxifraga' [Smith annotation: "'hypnoides'"]; 4. nondescript 'Saxifraga'; 5. 'Saxifraga' [Smith annotation: "unknown to me"]; 6. 'Viola protea' [Smith annotation: "perhaps Mr Crowe's new one"]; 7. 'Potentilla verna' [Smith annotation: "? 'verna'"]; 8. 'Potentilla' [Smith annotation: "'verna'"]; 9. 'Potentilla' [Smith annotation: "'aurea'"]; 10. 'Potentilla' [Smith annotation: "new?"]; 11. 'Bryum'.

14 numbered specimens: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Introduces Mr Simmonds, who is studying medicine in Edinburgh; he is fond of natural history and has studied marine animals. Encloses specimen of 'Poa flexuosa' in rare state, collected from Ben Nevis in June 1794, a moss believed to be 'Fontinalis capillacea', and 'Marchantia androgyna'.

Three specimens, 1 grass and two mosses.

Thanks for letter of 6 March [1802], comments on dispute with [Arthur] Bruce [(c 1725-1805), land surveyor] over discovery of 'Convallaria verticillata'.

Numbered observations on 42 enclosed moss specimens [extant], including: 1. 'Orthotrichum saxatile'; 2. 'O. piliferum'; 3. 'O. tortuaforum'; 4. 'O.striatum'; 5. 'O. rupestre'; 6. 'O. obtusifolium'; 7. like 'O. saxatile'; 8-9. two unknown 'Phascum'; 10. 'P. corvicoulor'; 11. 'P. inundatum'; 12. 'Riccia fructicosa'; 13. possible 'Bryum splachnoides'; 14. unknown 'Lepidium'; 15. 'B. fasciculare' or 'B. paucifolium'; 16. 'Hedwigia fasciulatum'; 17-18. two unknown 'Bryum'; 19. unknown 'Hypnum'; 20. 'Splachnum rugosum'; 21. unknown 'Spalchnum'; 22. 'S. breviranum'; 23. 'S. vasculosa'; 24. 'S. mnioides'; 25. 'S. breviranum'; 26. 'Bryum tenuis'; 27. 'B. brevifolium'; 28. 'B. lineare'; 29. 'B.scoparium'; 30-32. three unknown 'Bryum'; 33. 'B. septentrionale'; 34. 'Polytrichum gracile'; 35. unknown 'Polytrichum'; 36. 'B. uncoides'; 37-38. new 'Bryum'; 39 'Hypnum filiforme'; 40. unknown 'Hypnum'; 41. unknown 'Lichen'; 42. unknown 'Hypnum'.

Requests English moss specimens. Would like to purchase Smith's book on cryptogams when it is published.

42 specimens of mosses, numbered.