26 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. [1841, 



and clown to Brieg ; thence partly on foot, partly 

 char-a-banc, to Marti gny ; made excursion to the Col 

 de Balme to get a good view of Mont Blanc ; back to 

 Martigny, down to Villeneuve, and steamer to Geneva. 

 I reached there, I think, July 4 ; worked there ten 

 days or so, very sharp ; De Candolle, father and son, 

 and Renter 1 the curator ; saw again Boissier. Leav- 

 ing boat at Lausanne, diligence to Freiburg, Berne, 

 Bale. Got across country, I hardly remember how, to 

 Tiibingen, Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Frankfort ; thence 

 to Leipzig ; made excursion to Dresden, then to Halle, 

 where was Schlechtendal, and where I looked over 

 old Schkuhr's originals of his Carex plates ; thence 

 through Wittenberg to Potsdam and Berlin ; worked 

 diligently a week in herbarium. Willdenow, Klotzsch 

 the curator ; saw old Link, Kunth, and Ehrenberg. 

 Diligence to Hamburg, where was Lehmann, one of 

 my very earliest correspondents. Steamer from Ham- 

 burg to London, late in September. Toward the middle 

 of October went to Portsmouth, and came back to 

 New York in a London packet-ship. Steamers were 

 then only just beginning to make regular trips. 



Returning, Michigan University was quite ready 

 to give me a furlough of a year or two, without pay ; 

 took hold sharp of " Flora of North America," and in 

 beginning of next summer (June, 1840) we issued 

 the parts 3 and 4 of vol. i. Then went at the " Com- 

 positse ; " was interrupted a while in summer of 1841, 

 when I went with John Carey, and James Constable 

 for a part of the time, on a botanical trip up the Val- 

 ley of Virginia to the mountains of North Carolina, 

 getting as far as to Grandfather and Roan. 



1 George Francis Renter, 1815-1873 ; director of the Botanical 

 Garden at Geneva; curator of Boissier's herbarium. 



