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WILLIAM FAWCETT, DIRECTOR.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC GARDENS & PLANTATIONS,

Gordon Town P. O., Jamaica.

23 Nov. 1836.

Dear D^r. Wallace,

I am very pleased to hear that the small collection of mosses sent for M^r. Mitten¹ has been of interest to him. Duplicates of them were sent to Berlin Botanic Garden, to the British Museum & to Rev. Binstead,² Herefordshire.

From Berlin I have a list of determinations by D^r. C Müller,³ who thinks that there are 20 new species amongst them. Even the number acknowledged by M^r. Mitten seemed to me to be a very surprising [illeg.] proportion, & the moss flora of Jamaica evidently [2] repay a collector's trouble. I will send you more later on.

When spring comes on again, & there will be no danger in sending Orchids to England, you shall have specimens of Oncidium pulchellum & O. triquetrum.

I am very glad to hear that it was a false report that I heard of the death of M^r J. C. Mansell-Pleydell.⁴ If you see him, please give him my kind regards.

Very truly yours | W Fawcett⁵ [signature]