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him, and receiving eighty dollars as pay. This I can 

 fix as the winter of 1833-34 or 1834-35. The first 

 century of my " North American Graminea3 and Cype- 

 racese " was got out that winter, and it bears the date 

 of 1834. 1 In February or March I went up by stage- 

 coach from New York to Albany, thence to Bridge- 

 water, and so to Utica, to do my work at Bartlett's 

 school. That finished, made a second trip to the 

 northeast part of the State, collecting in botany and 

 mineralogy with Dr. Crawe, extending the tour to St. 

 Lawrence County, where we found fine fluor-spar and 

 great but rough crystals of phosphate of lime, idio- 

 crase, etc. I wrote some account of these for the 

 " American Journal of Science," the earliest of my 

 many contributions to that journal. Returning to- 

 ward autumn to Bridgewater, I there received a letter 

 from Dr. Torrey, informing me that the prospects of 

 the Medical College were so poor that he could not 

 longer afford to have my services as assistant. Bart- 

 lett's school I had resigned from on account of my 

 prospects in New York. And, in fact, the school was 

 then going down, and he [Bartlett] was transferred 

 soon after to Poughkeepsie, where he flourished anew 

 for a time. I was in a rather bad way. But I deter- 

 mined to go to New York, assisted Dr. Torrey as I 

 could, got out the second part of my " North American 

 Graminea3 and CyperaceaB." I am not sure whether I 

 was in Dr. Torrey's family or not, or for only a part 

 of the winter. But in the spring of 1835, I went up 

 to my father's house for the summer, with some books, 



1 It appears that in December, 1834, I read to the Lyceum of Nat- 

 ural History my first paper, Monograph of North American jRhyn- 

 chosporce, and my second. New or Hare Plants of the State of New 

 York. They must have heen printed early in 1835. A. G. 



