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174 DAVID J. GALLOWAY LICHENOGRAPHIA UNIVEJRSALIS. * ADIECTIS OBSERVATIONIBUS TFKiURIS HORUM VEGETABIL1UM NATURAM ET ORGANORUM CAIU'OMORPHORUM STRUCTURAM 1LLUSTRANTIBUS , AD GENERA, SPECIES, VARIETATES DIFFERENTIIS ET OBSERVATIONIBUS SOLLICITE DEFINITAS RE DE G IT ERIK A C H A R I U S, ^ EQCES A I'll. nCC. Oil DIN IS D I! W A S A. MEn. DOCT. pnorisson IU:G. nivs. rnovisc. ORTIJOGOTII. AIJ REG. xosoc. VADST. NKO. I'KIM. OKI). IU:G. ACAJ). SCIENT. ET COLI.EO. MKD. STOCK II. SOCII'.T. IMIYSIOGIt. Ll'SD. PIIYfl. GOTTIVG. LINV. I.USJ). ETC. Son.VLIS. SOC. HIST. NAT. WOSfOV. ET rilYTOUR. GOTT. Mi:>iun. HONOR. CUM TABULI9 AENEII XIV COLORATIJ. GOTTINGAE, A PUD IUST. FRID. DANCKWERTS. i 8 i o. Fig. 11 Title page of Lichenographia universalis (Acharius, 1810). Library, British Museum (Natural History). You may see how much I have been able to contribute to the completion of the Lichenologie. T'is in my opinion the most useful and complete of my works in that way.' (Acharius, 1813&). With the advice on the publication of the Synopsis (Fig. 15) made known to Smith and Turner, the lichenologists in England who would have had most use for it, Acharius ended his correspondence with botanists in England although he continued to hear of botanical progress in England through his friend Swartz. ,
ERIK ACHARIUS AND HIS INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH LICHENOLOGY 175 Fig. 12 Hand-coloured plate (II) from Lichenographia universalis. Library, British Museum (Natural History). Swartz meanwhile, had also written to Nathaniel Winch of Newcastle in the same year, mentioning the new Synopsis: 'Mr Acharius's Lichenographia is a work of 4 value. If I can get it, I will contrive to send it, but this moment no copy is to be got here. A new Synopsis of Lichens (a compendium of the Lichenographia) is just printing and this I shall certainly be able to dispatch (Swartz, 1813a). another season.' Turner, who had espoused Acharius's views most strongly, still received letters from Swartz from time to time, and in them lichens were always discussed. Swartz was keenly interested in the progress of Turner's Lichenographia. In 1816 Swartz observed to Turner: '. . . my friend Dr Acharius has pursued his old task, the Lichenologia, and his last opusculum is the Synopsis, which contains indeed multum in parvo. The very great addition he got not only from
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