Farlow Herbarium of Harvard University Index to the Moss Herbarium of Thomas Taylor The Taylor cryptogamic herbarium, containing mosses, hepatics and lichens, was presented to Harvard by John Amory Lowell, who purchased it on the advice of Asa Gray in 1849. The moss section, here indexed, contains 4036 specimens. Taylor was born, probably in the 1780's though the date is uncertain, in the "East Indies," where his father was Colonel in the East Indian Army. He attended Trinity College, Dublin, taking the B.A. in 1807 and the M.D. in 1813/14. After practicing medicine in Dublin for about ten years, he removed [to] Cork, and was Professor of Natural History at the short-lived Royal Institution of that city. Before 1832 he retired to the village of Dunkerron, near Kenmare, in County Kerry, where he died in February 1848. Taylor collaborated with W. J. Hooker on the first (1 January 1818) and second (early 1827) editions of Muscologia Britannica. Other major publications were on collections of William Jameson from Ecuador and James Drummond from Australia. The herbarium has specimens, including isotypes, of Taylor's friends and correspondents, particularly the Hookers, William Wilson, Dawson Turner, and Archibald Menzies. There are smaller but valuable groups of specimens, acquired at first or second hand, such as the 41 from the Hedwig-Schwaegrichen herbarium, and some from the herbaria of Dillenius, Palisot de Beauvois, and Dickson. Although it was the hepatics and lichens of