Yarmouth.
Decr 15th 1816
My dear Sir
Your letter of the 10th 1 has been forwarded to me hither & I am happy to find by it that your affection for the Mosses still continues & particularly that you have some specimens which you wish me to determine for you. You cannot send them to me too soon for that purpose, as my friend Dr Taylor 2 has lately come over from Ireland in order that we may complete our Muscologia 3 together & we are working here, where we have the advantage of Mr Turner’s 4 rich Herbarium. Several of our plates are done & our MS is in a very forward state. One of two of the former I should like to send you if you could find any forward friend to whom I might send it under cover for you. When I last wrote to you we had by no means determined upon what Genera we should adopt. Our Tabula is now completed & contains Andræa, Sphagnum, Phascum, Schistostega, Anictangium, Gymnostomum, Diphyscium, Tetraphis, Splachnum, Polytrichum, Cinclidotus, Tortula, Encalypta, Grimmia, Pterogonium, Weissia, Dicranum, Trichostomum, Leucodon (Pter. Sciuroides) Didymodon, Funaria, Orthotrichum, Daltonia (containing Neckera heteromalla & Neckera splachnoides both [illegible] calyptra) Neckera, Fontinalis, Buxbaumia, Bartramia, Hookeria, Hypnum, & Bryum. Thus you see Meesia, Diplocomium & Pohlia have melted into Bryum & Leskea into Hypnum. In the latter Genus we have been obliged to reduce the number of species considerably & even in the Genus Phascum recent observations on P. strictum have convinced us it is only a small dark variety of P. axillare.
You do not say if you have seen my friend Mr Dalton 5 who has been expecting the pleasure of your company at Croft while you staid in Yorkshire 6. If your leisure should allow you & your inclination lead you to come into my part of the country I should be very happy to see you & talk about Mosses with you at Halesworth, where I shall be returned in rather less than three weeks.
Unfortunately my Flora Londinensis 7 keeps me more at home than any of my occupations & I have no expectation of being in town before the spring, if then.
Pray direct anything you may have for me at Dawson Turner’s Esqre Yarmouth. If by Coach – the Yarmouth Telegraph, White Horse Fetter Lane.
I beg you will offer my Compliments to Lady Elizabeth Feilding 8
Yours dear Sir Very truly & faithfully
W. J. Hooker.
W. H. F. Talbot Esqre
31. Sackville street
London.
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