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rambled away into the dark spruce woods, through the rich 

 undergrowth of Kalmias, Ledums and Andromedas, with 

 Sarracenias and Orchids rising from among the Sphagnums in 

 the damper spots. He dredged and shore-collected also, but 

 the seaweed flora was not rich. Thence he passed to New 

 York, which he describes as like twenty Birkenheads and a 

 dozen Liverpools, with slices from London and Paris, all huddled 

 together, and painted bright red, with green windows. He 

 visited Niagara and Quebec, and then travelled to Boston, where 

 he was welcomed by Asa Gray, who was his host during his 

 stay. 



The lectures were well attended, and Harvey seems to have 

 been satisfied with them and with the reception which they 

 received ; a popular lecture on seaweeds at the Franklin Institute 

 at Providence was largely attended. These discourses, and 

 the introductions and conversations that ensued, had more than 

 a passing interest, as recruits were enrolled for alga-collecting, 

 who subsequently supplied valuable material for his work on 

 North American seaweeds. He saw all that was best of scientific 

 society in Boston and New York, and met many of the great 

 men of that generation Agassiz, Bailey, Dana, Longfellow, 

 Leidy, Pickering, Prescott, Silliman, Daniel Webster, Oliver 

 Wendell Holmes. Having fulfilled his engagements and re- 

 visited the family of his late brother Jacob in New York, he 

 turned his face southward in January for a collecting tour along 

 the Atlantic sea-board. 



After brief stays at Wilmington and Charleston, where he 

 did a little botanizing, and sent to Kew a box-full of Dionaea, 

 he arrived by boat at Key West one Sunday midnight in pouring 

 rain, to spend the remaining hours of darkness in wandering 

 about seeking a lodging. But by morning his fortunes had 

 mended, and he spent a busy and pleasant month there, collecting 

 by day, dodging mosquitos by night, and living mainly upon 

 turtle and roast turkey, more ordinary foods being scarce. He 

 made large collections of Algae, almost every day bringing to 

 him new and beautiful forms. He had hoped to have the com- 

 pany of Prof. Bailey on this trip, but illness prevented this, and 

 he had to carry out his work alone. 



