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classified by habitat, which was a new idea to me, and appealed to me. During 

 my first year there I wrote two articles on Georgia, classifying by habitat 

 the plants around Athens, where I attended college from 1894 to 1897, and 

 those around Americus, where I lived from 1892 to 1897, depending mostly 

 on memory, for I took few notes in those days. These were published in the 

 Torrey Bulletin for June and August, 1900. None of my preceptors at that 

 time were interested in that sort of work, and they might have recommended 

 other lines of research, but they did not try to discourage me. And that has 

 continued to be my principal botanical interest ever since. 



Summer schools were rare or unknown in those days, and I planned to 

 spend the summer of 1900 in exploring as much as possible of Georgia, hoping 

 to collect enough plants to pay the expenses of the trip, which I did. From 

 members of the Columbia and Garden staffs I got the addresses of several 

 herbaria in the United States and Europe that might like to buy my speci- 

 mens, and I wrote to them beforehand, and soon got enough orders to justify 

 the trip. 6 At the suggestion of Dr. Britton, Judge Brown lent me enough 

 money to pay my traveling expenses, 7 which were kept rather low by the hos- 

 pitality of several friends in Georgia whom I visited. For about four weeks that 

 summer Percy Wilson of the Garden staff was with me, and it was an interest- 

 ing experience for him, as he had never been so far from home before. (But 

 the following year he went half way around the world with an astronomical 

 expedition, and later he made many trips to tropical America.) The Georgia 

 expedition, rounding out my first year at Columbia, yielded some interesting 

 results in the way of new species and extensions of range. My report on it 

 was published in the Torrey Bulletin for August, 1901, but nothing more 

 need be said about it here, for that would be getting too far from New York, 

 and carrying us beyond the 19th century with which this account has dealt. 



University, Alabama 



6 Incidentally, most of the letters received from Europe were written with pen and ink, 

 presumably indicating that typewriters — an American invention of about two decades before 

 — were less common there than here. 



7 But did not donate it as one might infer from Dr. Britton's report in Bull. N. Y. Bot. 

 Gard. 2: 23. 1901. 



