26 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. [1841, 
and down to Brieg; thence partly on foot, partly 
char-a-bane, to Martigny ; made excursion to the Col 
de Balme to get a good view of Mont Blane; back to 
Martigny, down to Villeneuve, and steamer to Geneva. 
I reached there, I think, July 4; worked there ten 
days or so, very sharp; De Candolle, father and son, 
and Reuter! the curator; saw again Boissier. Leay- 
ing boat at Lausanne, diligence to Freiburg, Berne, 
Bale. Got across country, I hardly remember how, to 
Tubingen, Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Frankfort ; thence 
to Leipzig ; made excursion to Dresden, then to Halle, 
where was Schlechtendal, and where I looked over 
old Schkuhr’s originals of his Carex plates ; thence 
through Wittenberg to Potsdam and Berlin; worked 
dilineatly a week in herbarium. Willdenow, Klotzsch 
the curator ; saw old Link, Kunth, and Ehrenberg. 
Diligence to Hamburg, where was Lehmann, one of 
my very earliest correspondents. Steamer from Ham- 
burg to London, late inSeptember. Toward the middle 
of October went to Portsmouth, and came back to 
New York in a London packet-ship. Steamers were 
then only just beginning to make regular trips. 
Returning, Michigan Vaivaite: was quite ready 
to give me a Glaus of a year or two, without pay; 
took hold sharp of “ Flora of North America,” and in 
beginning of next summer (June, 1840) we issued 
the parts 3 and 4 of vol.i. Then went at the ‘“Com- 
posite ;”” was interrupted a while in summer of 1841, 
when I went with John Carey, and James Constable 
for a part of the time, on a botanical trip up the Val- 
ley of Virginia to the mountains of North Carolina, 
getting as far as to Grandfather and Roan. 
1 George Francis Reuter, 1815-1873; director of the Botanical 
Garden at peers } curator of Boissier’s herbarium. 
