From Charles Yate   10 November 1837

Dear Sir,

During my last summer’s ramble in Norway I had hoped to collect many plants, but owing to the rapidity of my movements, to say nothing of the difficulty of preserving & carrying them, I was utterly unable. I send you however the few that I collected, tho’ I fear there is nothing worthy of your notice. The plant, which I take to be a Saxifrage, was very beautiful & fragrant, when fresh gathered, & was growing high up on the sunny side of a valley in the Dovre-Field chain of mountains. I only saw a few specimens in one spot, & some of them were much larger than those I send; but their size prevented me from bringing them away.

I send also a few shells, which I gathered near Udevalla, in Sweden, from one of the raised beaches described by M ^r Lyell. They are most abundant there, & lie at an elevation at least 500 feet above the level of the sea, which is about a mile distant. It would seem that the whole peninsula of Norway & Sweden has at some time been elevated; for a gentleman resident near Gothenburg in Sweden told me of similar beds in his neighbourhood. I heard of them also, from good authority, near Christiania, & M ^r Laing, in his book on Norway, speaks of these beds being very abundant, north of Drontheim (sic), at a considerable elevation above the coast.

I fear that I shall appear to have taken useless trouble in forwarding these things to you, but if they sh. ^d be of the least value to you, it will be a satisfaction to

Your’s very faithfully | Charles Yate