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this delay. It contains $90. safe. You have before this rec'd 

 my letter dated at Albany, containing the news of my election 

 to the situation at the Normal School. 



I must now work hard until the close of the term to finish 

 some investigations which I wish to present to the "Am. 

 Association for the Advancement of Science ' ' at its next meet- 

 ing at Albany, August 18th, 1851. I may be accompanied by 

 one or two young scientific friends when I go home, who intend 

 to visit the mineral localities North. They will not stay long 

 at Deer River. Affectionately, Samuel. 



Study and commercial analytical work had kept 

 Mr. Johnson's time well filled during the eighteen 

 months spent in New Haven. His only publications 

 in this period were one scientific paper upon the dis- 

 covery of sulphuret of nickel in Northern New York 

 and an educational article, setting forth a plan for a 

 ''County Agricultural Institute" designed to under- 

 take work similar to that now done by the State 

 Experiment Stations. This latter was published in 

 the Albany Cultivator, which, established in 1833 as 

 the organ of the New York State Agricultural Society, 

 at this date was owned and edited by Luther Tucker, 

 who had brought the old journal up to a high standard 

 of literary excellence, Eben N. Horsford, John Pitkin 

 Norton- and Donald G. Mitchell being among its 

 contributors. 



Mr. Johnson passed the school year of 1851-52 in 

 Albany, teaching natural sciences in the New York 

 State Normal School. Here, as always when he 

 had mature and earnest pupils, he was an inspiring 

 teacher, and won friendship and admiration for him- 

 self through his teaching. No home letters covering 

 these months are in existence. It is not far from 



