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had already attended its courses in chemistry, given 
by Professor James Hadley (father of Professor 
James Hadley of Yale College, then a lad), my earli- 
est scientific adviser and most excellent friend. I had 
a passion for mineralogy in those days, as well as for 
chemistry. The spring and summer of 1827 I passed 
in the office of one of the village doctors of Sauquoit, 
Dr. Priest, and on the opening af the autumn session re- 
turned to the medical school at Fairfield. That year, 
large cities. In 1820 the school had one hundred students, and in- 
Academy were Albert Barnes, the noted expositor, General Halleck, 
of the United States Army, and James Hadley, professor of Greek at 
he 
of lectures. “One of them was RY y Dr. Mather, who was a fel- 
oo often served him on his journeys, when a regular prnetitinase 
was not within easy reach 
