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1886.] BOTANICAL GAZETTE, 3 
thus earned, he made a collecting tour through western New 
ork, going as far as Buffalo and Niagara Falls. About this 
time he received an appointment as teacher of chemistry, botany, 
geology and mineralogy ina private school for boys in Utiea, 
controlled by a Mr. Bartlett. is first summer vacation was 
spent ina trip through southern New York, Pennsylvania and 
New Jersey, collecting plants, fossils and minerals. At Bethle- 
hem he spent a day with Bishop Schweinitz. Arriving in New 
York City, in September, m met Dr. Torrey for the first time, 
and went with him ona collecting trip to Tom’s River, N.. 
uring the next summer he was employed by Dr. "Torrey to 
collect in the “ pine barrens” of New Jersey, and the regions 
about Little Egg Harbor, Wading River and Quaker Bridge 
were scoured by him. On one of his excursions he fell in with 
an entomologist who proved to be Major Le Conte. Many of the 
plants which he collected in this locality came into possession 0 
reene, and are to be met with in various herbaria labeled 
“Coll. Greene.” The winter was spent at the Bartlett school, 
but the spring saw him on another collecting tour along the Black 
river, During the summer he gave a course 0 ectures on min- 
eralogy and botany at Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., for 
Professor Hadley. 
In the autumn he gota furlough from the Bartlett school in 
order that he might be Dr. Torrey’s assistant in chemistry in the 
medical school at New York. During this winter, 1834-5 (?), 
he lived with Dr. Torrey, and worked all the spare time in his 
herbarium. At this time he issued the first century of “ Gra- 
mine and Cyperacee of North America.” In December, 1834, 
he read his first paper before the New York Lyceum of Natural 
History, entitled: “A Monograph of N. Am. Rhynchospore,” 
and a second one, “A notice of some new, rare or otherwise in- 
ames plants from the northern and western portions of the 
\. Y.” In February or March he returned to his school 
york ! apes but the summer again found him collecting plants 
and minerals in northeastern New York.. An account of the min- 
erals then ee forms his first contribution to the American 
Journal of Scie 
He exp Sotat fs return to New York in the fall, as Dr. Tor- 
rey’s silient and to this end had resigned his pattie in the 
Bartlett school. But the autumn brought a letter from Dr. 
rey saying that the prospects of the school were so poor that he 
could not afford to employ him. Nevertheless he went to New 
York, assisted Torrey as he had opportunity, and issued the sec- 
d century of “ Graminez.’ 
