28 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. [1843. 
the first edition of my “ Botanical Text-Book ;” it was 
in the course of printing when I was appointed to the 
Fisher professorship, so “ee I could put that title on 
the title-page, and have a text-book for my class. 
y first session of college work was over about 
July 7 1843. The treasurer, Mr. Samuel Eliot, had 
given me leave to spend a small sum in replenishing 
the Botanic Garden. I met my friend and corre- 
spondent, William S. Sullivant, who had taken strongly 
to mosses, early in August, on the Alleghanies beyond 
Frostburg, Maryland (the railroad went only to Cum- 
berland), he coming from Columbus, Ohio, I from 
Cambridge. There we bought a span of horses and 
a strong country wagon, and set out on the mountain 
expedition, some sketch of which is given in the 
“‘ American Journal of Science” for January, 1846. 
(The first journey is more particularly detailed in 
the “American Journal of Science,” xlii., no. 1; 
1842?) When Sullivant left me, at Warm Springs 
on the French Broad, anxious to get home, I was left 
in a pretty lonely condition. 
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