7, 23.] AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 19 
him, and receiving eighty dollars as pay. This I can 
fix as the winter of 1833-34 or 1834-35. The first 
century of my “ North American Graminew and Cype- 
racee ” was got out that winter, and it bears the date 
of 1834.1 In February or March I went up by stage- 
coach from New York to Albany, thence to Bridge- 
water, and so to Utica, to do my work at Bartlett’s 
school. That finished, made a second trip to the 
northeast part of the State, collecting in botany and 
mineralogy with Dr. Crawe, extending the tour to St. 
Lawrence County, where we found fine fluor-spar and 
great but rough crystals of phosphate of lime, idio- 
erase, etc. I wrote some account of these for the 
‘American Journal of Science,” the earliest of my 
many contributions to that journal. Returning to- 
ward autumn to Bridgewater, [ there received a letter 
from Dr. Torrey, informing me that the prospects of 
the Medical College were so poor that he could not 
longer afford to have my services as assistant. Bart- 
lett’s school I had resigned from on account of my 
prospects in New York. And, in fact, the school was 
then going down, and he [Bartlett] was transferred 
soon after to Poughkeepsie, where he flourished anew 
for a time. I was in a rather bad way. But I deter- 
mined to go to New York, assisted Dr. Torrey as I 
could, got out the second part of my “ North American 
Graminez and Cyperacee.” Iam not sure whether [ 
was in Dr. Torrey’s family or not, or for only a part 
of the winter. But in the spring of 1835, I went up 
to my father’s house for the summer, with some books, 
1 Tt appears that in December, 1834, I read to the Lyceum of Nat- 
ural History my first paper, Monograph of North American Rhyn- 
chospore, and my second, New or Rare Plants of the State ei New 
York. They must have been printed early in 1835. — A. G 
