18 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. [1834, 
and I have encountered them,-i. ¢., the specimens, 
in various places, especially in Herb. De Candolle, 
s “Coll. Greene.” I got down, I hardly now know 
how, to Tuckerton on the Jersey coast, botanized at 
Little Egg Harbor, Wading River, Quaker Bridge, 
and Atsion. While at Quaker Bridge my loneliness 
was cheered by the appearance of a fine-looking man, 
who came in a chaise, looking after some particular 
insect. It proved to be Major Le Conte.! 
The next winter at Bartlett’s school. In the spring 
went north to Watertown; visited Dr. Crawe, bota- 
nized on Black River, made mineralogical excursions, 
and back to Uttea via Sackett’s Har bee (lake to Os- 
wego, and canal to Utica). After the spring term of 
school there —I think it was that year, but am uncer- 
tain —TI took through the summer Professor Hadley’s 
place at Hamilton College, Clinton; gave for him a 
course of instruction in botany and mineralogy. This, 
I have reason to think, was a ruse of my good friend, 
who wished me to sueceed to that professorship, which 
he was on the point of resigning. Fortunately, Charles 
Avery, my old academic preceptor, became a candi- 
date and secured the election. 
These years are a good deal mixed up, and I cannot 
settle their dates nor the order of events. Only I 
know that the next autumn I got a furlough from the 
school until toward the end of winter, that I might 
accept Dr. Torrey’s invitation to be his assistant dur- 
ing his course of chemical lectures in the Medical 
School, and at his house in the herbarium, living with 
1 John E. Le ease 1784-1860 ; eapeaid major in United States 
army. His first botanical publication was a catalogue of the plants 
on ai island of New York, in 1810. He later wrote chiefly on énto- 
mology. 
