172 The Botanical Gazette. (May, 
edition of Dr. Gray’s Manual. I should also add the nameof 
Dr. H. P. Sartwell of Penn Yan, New York, with whom 1 
made large exchanges. Ultimately my correspondents in- 
cluded also Mr. S. T. Olney of Rhode Island and Prof 
Daniel C. Eaton of New Haven, Conn.” : 
When twenty-one years of age, having already graduated 
at Oneida Institute, he decided to study medicine and for 
this purpose attended three courses of lectures at the Berkshire 
Medical Institute, at Pittsfield, Mass., from which he gradu 
ated in 1846. While doing this he was obliged to support 
himself by teaching school. It was during this time that ht 
first made the personal acquaintance of Prof. Dewey, at that 
time the leading caricographer of the country. Immediately 
after graduation he spent a few weeks at the College of Phy: 
, Sicians and Surgeons, in New York City. It was at this tim 
that he had the advantage of personally knowing the two pe 
eminent botanists of America, Doctors John Torrey and Ast 
Gray, and from this time they were his life-long friends 
About Christmas of this year he married Miss Scott, of Onn 
kany, and settled at Dexter, New York, where he comme” 
the practice of his profession. In 1848 he removed with his 
the study of his favorite science, making thos 
sul collections which have so enriched the ol 
our country, and extending his botanical correspondence | 
it included all the active workers in the science. 7 ie 
late Dr. Engelmann, especially, he received much aid, 
pg came in pleasant contact with a number of activ 
botanists, among whom were the excellent Mr. Bebb, 
W. Powell, now head of the U. S. Geological Survey) 
the il 
ade 
Pea were instrumental with him in forming 
Mids History Society, of which Dr. Vasey was ™ 
en 4 
ae Oward the close of 1867 he was again happily ™ 
™S Second wife was the widow of surgeon John Ww. 
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