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of the students, like Cooper and Hayden, entered the 

 Medical Corps of the army. Others found their resources 

 painfully dwindling. There is a tale told of the time 

 when for a few days the Confederate General Early 

 threatened Washington's communications. Landladies 

 raised the price of board, and two students, combining 

 their scanty means, bought a large ham as a means of 

 escape from threatened starvation. Early was soon 

 driven away, but their cash had been invested and the 

 two prudent investors had to live on ham for a week. 



As counterbalancing to some extent these difficulties 

 Miss Lucy records that some of the most eminent and 

 useful associates in her father's work came to Washington 

 about that time. Among these may be mentioned Dr. 

 J. S. Newberry, 1 the geologist and paleobotanist, who 

 was closely associated with the Sanitary Commission, 

 and Dr. Henry Bryant. The latter, whose name will 

 always be associated with the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, and who was, according to Miss Lucy, her 

 father's most intimate friend among the ornithologists 

 of that day, was for a long time in charge of one of the 



1 John Strong Newberry, M.D., born in Windsor, Conn., Dec. 

 22, 1822; died at New Haven, Dec. 7, 1892. A graduate of Western 

 Reserve College, Ohio, in 1846, and of the Cleveland Medical School 

 in 1848, he completed his medical studies in Paris, where he became 

 acquainted with many of the distinguished scientists of that day. 

 He went into practice on his return, but was soon appointed Assistant 

 Surgeon and naturalist to Lieut. Williamson's exploring expedition 

 in the Far West, and afterward joined similar expeditions under Ives 

 and Macomb. He rendered admirable service on the Sanitary Com- 

 mission during the Civil War and in 1866 was appointed to the Pro- 

 fessorship of Geology and Paleontology in Columbia University, New 

 York. He was distinguished as a paleontologist and was elected a 

 member of the National Academy of Sciences. 



