KT, 30.] AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 27 
It was, I think, in the spring of 1841 that the first 
part of the “ Composite ” was published, 7. ¢., vol. ii. 
. 1-184; the second part, to p. 400, was out the 
week spring. Sometime in January, 1842, I made a 
visit of two or three days to B. D. Greene in Boston ; 
the first time I ever saw Boston. Came out one day 
to Cambridge, dined with his father-in-law, President 
Quincy ; the company to meet us was Professor Chan- 
ning! and Professor Treadwell? Sometime in April, 
I received a letter from President Quincy, telling me 
that the Corporation of the university would elect me 
Fisher professor of natural history if I would before- 
hand signify my acceptance. The endowment then 
yielded fifteen hundred dollars a year. I was to have 
2% thousand and allow the rest to accumulate for a 
while. Meanwhile I was to give only a course of botani- 
eal lectures, in the second spring term, and look after 
the Garden. But more work was soon added. I came 
in July, in the midst of vacation, before Commence- 
ment, which was then in September ; got oC 's, With 
room for my then small herbarium, in the house of 
Deacon Munroe. Went late in September on an excur- 
sion to Mount Washington, by way of the Notch, along 
with Tuckerman, then living at his father’s in Boston. 
Worked away at “ Composite,’ and in the winter 
went to New York and carried the remainder through 
the press. It was issued in February, 1843. 
I must not forget that my little ‘ Gia of Bot- 
any” had been sold out, and the publishers, Carvill, had 
gone out of business or died. I prepared in 1841-42 
1 Edward T. Channing; professor of rhetoric and oratory at Har- 
vard University, 
2 Daniel cool .. in Harvard Univ a, of applied 
ae distinguished inventor in mechanics, especially in the weld- 
steel. 
