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obliged to send away young men to fill places before he wished 

 to ; that is, before they had fully completed their course. He 

 thinks there is no risk in getting lucrative employment, espe- 

 cially as Professors and Teachers of Agricultural Chemistry. 

 My expenses here would be about $350 or $400. And here let 

 me say a few words as to the funds I have at disposal. The 

 wages for my winter's work were $80. for my summer's 



$150. = $230. Where is it? Oh where is it? where? ? 



I have given about $20. in obedience to the golden rule, to 

 whom I may not say. I believe it was well given. My journey 

 home cost about $10. My return cost me nothing. A watch 

 cost $12. I have procured clothes to the amt. of $15., $30 or 

 more has gone for books, — all good serviceable necessary 

 hooks. My present expedition consumes with the utmost 

 economy — shilling dinners at restaurants, $10. A dozen 

 excursions to New York, etc., have cost as many dollars. 

 Sightseeing, all laudable for I don't give money without get- 

 ting its worth, has taken more. I have improved my leisure 

 hours with chemical study and experiments — this has used 

 money — and I have only about $100. left. Two months more 

 will swell the amount to $150. This will keep me in Yale 

 6 mo., then I can look out for ways and means to raise more. 

 My bodily appetites 1 can control, so that I have only one 

 passion that is a well ridden hobby horse that consumes money 

 without control, and that is a love of books, or what is in them. 

 "When I get to Flushing I shall expect a letter from home and 

 a Northern Journal. — 



This ''Chemical School" of Professor J. P. Norton 

 at Yale was the immediate outgrowth of the private 

 laboratory of Professor B. Silliman, Jr., who, previous 

 to his appointment in 1846 as "University Professor of 

 Chemistry and the Kindred Sciences as Applied to 

 the Arts ' ' in Yale College, had received private pupils 

 in chemistry — among them John Pitkin Norton. At 



