From Jessie Hussey to Jacob Agardh   4 October 1895

To Professor Agardh

Lund

Dear Sir

I was pleased to receive your letter which came duly to hand, through the kind intermediation of Baron von Mueller.

It was kind, and thoughtful of you to explain so fully about the new Alga "Pachyglossum Husseyanum ", and I trust you will find specimens of it amongst some small plants, and fragments which I have sent to you since I received your memorandum

The cause of my mistake in sending plants wrongly named as pachyglossum was through having sent you two tufts under one number, and I had not noticed that they were distinct plants. My original specimen no 206 is only the one plant mychodea foliosa, without any other tuft clinging to it — I have not a copy of Harvey's work on algae, but will endeavour to get one at once, and if I am successful, will let you know, it would be a great help to me.

I will search carefully for more specimens of the pachyglossum, and send them to you as soon as I find them.

I congratulate you upon having entered the ninth decade of your life, and to still retain such wonderful power for microscopic researches, and wishing you may be spared to enjoy good health, and more years of usefulness

I am yours sincerely

Jessie L. Hussey

Port Elliot

S. Australia

4/10/95

Mychodea foliosa

Pachyglossum Husseyanum