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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,! 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. 
