The papers constituting this collection are botanical lists and one letter written from Montreal and accompanied a diploma for Moses as a corresponding member of the Natural History Society of Montreal. The collection includes lists of botanical plants sent to Dr. Alvin Wentworth Chapman; Charles James Sprague; Reverend T. L. Russell; Dr. Ezra Michener; the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences; T. M. Peters; and William M. Canby. A list of fungi received from Charles Horton Peck is also included.