18 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. [1834, 



and I have encountered them, i. e., the specimens, 

 in various places, especially in Herb. De Candolle, 

 as " Coll. Greene." I got down, I hardly now know 

 how, to Tuckerton on the Jersey coast, botanized at 

 Little Egg Plarbor, Wading Eiver, Quaker Bridge, 

 and Atsion. While at Quaker Bridge my loneliness 

 was cheered by the appearance of a fine-looking man, 

 who came in a chaise, looking after some particular 

 insect. It proved to be Major Le Conte.^ 



The next winter at Bartlett's school. In the spring 

 went north to Watertown ; visited Dr. Crawe, bota- 

 nized on Black River, made mineralogical excursions, 

 and back to Utica via Sackett's Harbor (lake to Os- 

 wego, and canal to Utica). After the spring term of 

 school there — I think it was that year, but am uncer- 

 tain — I took through the summer Professor Pladley's 

 place at Hamilton College, Clinton ; gave for him a 

 course of instruction in botany and mineralogy. This, 

 I have reason to think, was a ruse of my good friend, 

 who wished me to succeed to that professorship, which 

 he was on the point of resigning. Fortunately, Charles 

 Avery, my old academic preceptor, became a candi- 

 date and secured the election. 



These years are a good deal mixed up, and I cannot 

 settle their dates nor the order of events. Only I 

 know that the next autumn I got a furlough from the 

 school until toward the end of winter, that I might 

 accept Dr. Torrey's invitation to be his assistant dur- 

 ing his course of chemical lectures in the Medical 

 School, and at his house in the herbarium, living with 



1 John B. Le Conte, 1784-1860 ; formerly major in United States 

 army. His first botanical publication was a catalogue of the plants 

 on the island of New York, in 1810. He later wrote chiefly on ento- 

 mology. 



