﻿^o 
  BOTANICAL 
  GAZETTE. 
  [November, 
  

  

  to 
  be 
  paid 
  in 
  grain. 
  It 
  was 
  just 
  tvventj- 
  years 
  afterward 
  when 
  

   the 
  last 
  of 
  the 
  grain 
  was 
  turned 
  over 
  to 
  him. 
  Having 
  com- 
  

   pleted 
  his 
  academical 
  course 
  he 
  entered 
  Union 
  College 
  at 
  

   Schenectady, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  in 
  the 
  fall 
  of 
  1849. 
  % 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  

   fall 
  term 
  his 
  funds 
  were 
  exhausted 
  and 
  he 
  had 
  to 
  seek 
  em- 
  

   ployment 
  for 
  the 
  winter. 
  So, 
  in 
  company 
  with 
  A. 
  B. 
  Smith, 
  

   now 
  a 
  successful 
  lawyer 
  of 
  Poughkeepsie, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  he 
  started 
  

   afoot 
  into 
  Saratoga 
  county 
  to 
  find 
  a 
  school 
  to 
  teach. 
  After 
  

   walking 
  for 
  some 
  miles 
  they 
  came 
  to 
  where 
  the 
  road 
  forked 
  

   m 
  the 
  midst 
  of 
  a 
  dense 
  pine\vood. 
  Not 
  knowing 
  which 
  fork 
  

   to 
  take 
  a 
  stick 
  was 
  set 
  up 
  on 
  end 
  and 
  allowed 
  to 
  fall. 
  It 
  fell 
  

   towards 
  the 
  right-hand 
  fork, 
  which 
  the 
  young 
  men 
  followed 
  

   and 
  soon 
  came 
  to 
  the 
  village 
  of 
  Charlton. 
  Here 
  Mr. 
  Ellis 
  

   got 
  a 
  school 
  while 
  Smith 
  went 
  on 
  to 
  Gal 
  way, 
  the 
  next 
  village, 
  

   and 
  fortunately 
  got 
  the 
  school 
  there. 
  In 
  June, 
  185 
  1, 
  Mr. 
  

   iilhs 
  graduated 
  from 
  Union 
  College 
  with 
  the 
  degree 
  of 
  A.B. 
  

   (since 
  advanced 
  to 
  A. 
  M.), 
  and 
  went 
  to 
  Germantown, 
  Penn- 
  

   sylvania, 
  into 
  a 
  select 
  school 
  with 
  the 
  Rev. 
  D. 
  Washburne. 
  

   He 
  had 
  studied 
  botany 
  a 
  little 
  at 
  college 
  but 
  it 
  was 
  here 
  that 
  

   he 
  commenced 
  to 
  take 
  an 
  active 
  interest 
  in 
  phanerogamic 
  

   botany, 
  httle 
  dreaming 
  what 
  the 
  outcome 
  would 
  be. 
  The 
  

   earliest 
  plants 
  he 
  remembers 
  collecting 
  were 
  Liparis 
  liliifol'a 
  

   and 
  l^ygodium 
  palmatum. 
  In 
  November, 
  185 
  1, 
  he 
  severed 
  

   his 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  school 
  and 
  entered 
  the 
  Albany 
  

   Academy 
  as 
  classical 
  tutor, 
  remaining 
  one 
  year. 
  This 
  posi- 
  

   tion 
  was 
  better 
  suited 
  to 
  his 
  taste 
  for 
  he 
  had 
  decided 
  to 
  be- 
  

   come 
  a 
  professional 
  teacher 
  of 
  classics. 
  George 
  H. 
  Cook, 
  

  

  7 
  ^^^^ 
  

  

  J 
  

  

  Dow-pipe 
  analyses 
  of 
  minerals 
  withG. 
  W. 
  Taylor, 
  a 
  fellow 
  

   TZ'i 
  / 
  following 
  year 
  he 
  and 
  Taylor 
  went 
  into 
  a 
  select 
  

  

  school 
  tOP-ethpr 
  fnr 
  tK^^„ 
  .1 
  _ 
  t. 
  .-^^ 
  •. 
  j:j 
  „^f 
  nnV 
  the 
  

  

  1 
  1 
  ° 
  i-iin^C 
  lUUIJ 
  

  

  ^^'^.? 
  'V^,' 
  .^'^o'^en 
  up 
  and 
  M 
  

  

  While 
  with 
  Taylor 
  he 
  saw 
  by 
  chance 
  a 
  notice 
  of 
  Ravenel 
  

   is3r1 
  ^^^t"^^"^ 
  exsiccati, 
  the 
  first 
  thing 
  of 
  the 
  kind 
  ever 
  

   no 
  cpH^"? 
  ^"^^"^^^ 
  While 
  at 
  college 
  he 
  had 
  frequency 
  

   infor^ 
  r 
  '^^'^"^'' 
  ^''^ 
  "«t 
  knowing 
  where 
  to 
  get 
  books 
  or 
  

  

  nL 
  iTe 
  r" 
  r 
  '^"?^;."5"g 
  f^^ngi 
  let 
  them 
  alone. 
  But 
  upon 
  see- 
  

  

  hfn 
  cn° 
  '' 
  ""[ 
  Ravenel'? 
  collection 
  he 
  wrote 
  to 
  him 
  a 
  

   onlv 
  u,^'^"^^"^^^ 
  a 
  correspondence 
  (in 
  1857), 
  ^^^err^C 
  

   tinued^.n 
  it" 
  T'"' 
  '''^'^^' 
  ^^«ted 
  till 
  Ravenel's 
  death. 
  He 
  con- 
  

  

  ivw'° 
  r^^"^ 
  phanerogams 
  until 
  1870, 
  at 
  the 
  sanae 
  rn 
  

   he 
  ofd^ 
  f^^ 
  "^°'"^ 
  '^"^ 
  "^o'-e 
  attention 
  to 
  fungi. 
  In 
  ^^ 
  

   species 
  ^''P^'-l^^'-ogamic 
  collection, 
  containing 
  about 
  1,0^ 
  

  

  Pecies, 
  to 
  St. 
  Lawrence 
  University, 
  Canton, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

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