When about to set off from <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008129 https://www.geonames.org/2988507">Paris</placeName>, you wished me <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to give you some notes on what species of mosses were <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />common to <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">Nothen </del>Northern and Tropical countries: <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />this I was for a long time prevented from doing, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />indeed it caused me to look over very narrowly my <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />whole Herbarium of Mosses, as well as those of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />another friend in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005589 https://www.geonames.org/2650225">Edinburgh</placeName>. Yet my list is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />very small: I have also joined in it some others <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />which are remarkable & have been generally sup<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />posed as confined to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148">Europe</placeName>, but have really been <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />found in other continents. As I have not a copy <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003693 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118674455">Brown’s</persName> paper containing the list of Mosses com<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />mon to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002625 https://www.geonames.org/2077456">New Holland</placeName>, which I believe is con<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />tained in his <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/D8S2NM9G">„General remarks on the flora of <lb /><placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002625 https://www.geonames.org/2077456"><choice> <abbr>N.</abbr> <expan>New</expan> </choice> Holland</placeName>“</bibl>, I have not referred to it. This list <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />must therefore be understood only as supplementary. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I hope it may be of service to you