16 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. [ 1830, 
far as it went, and which on that journey I bought 
acopy of. I took also a parcel of plants to be named. 
Finding my way to Dr. Torrey’s house in Charlton 
Street with my parcel and letter, I had the disap- 
pointment of finding that he was away at Williams- 
town, Massachusetts, for the summer. It was not 
until the next winter that at Fairfield I received a 
letter from Dr. Torrey, naming my plants, and invit- 
ing the correspondence which continued thence to the 
end of his life. 
In addition to Dr. Hadley’s summer course of lec- 
tures on chemistry, Dr. Lewis C. Beck used to come 
and deliver a short course of lectures on botany. He 
gave this up the year in which I received my M. D., 
so Professor Hadley invited me to come and give the 
course instead. The course was given in five or six 
weeks, beginning in the latter part of May. I pre- 
pared myself during the winter, gave this my first 
course of lectures, cleared forty dollars by the opera- 
tion, and devoted it to the making of a tour to the 
western part of the State of New York, as far as 
Niagara Falls, Buffalo, and Aurora,—a dozen or 
more miles off, — where I visited an uncle, my mo- 
ther’s brother, a well-to-do country merchant, also a 
chum, Dr. Folwell, in Seneca County, high wp between 
the two lakes, where I passed a week or two; thence 
to Ithaca, and across the country by a stage-coach 
back to Bridgewater. I hardly know what I did the 
next autumn and winter, but in early spring a Mr. 
Edgerton, a pupil of Amos Eaton, at Troy, the pro- 
fessor of natural sciences at the flourishing school of 
Mr. Bartlett at Utica, died. I applied for the va- 
cancy, received the appointment, and for two or part 
of three years, minus a long summer vacation, I 
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