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received for the expenses of a botanical excursion through 

 western New York to Niagara Falls. Gray also delivered a 

 course of lectures at Hamilton College, Clinton, on mineralogy 

 and botany, for Prof. Hadley, in the college year of 1833-4, a 

 biographical sketch of Prof. Hadley, of Fairfield, by his son, 

 the eminent Professor of Greek at Yale, stating that his father, 

 who gave up his lectures at this college in 1834, " supj)lied his 

 place during the last term by a favorite pupil and much valued 

 friend, Dr. Asa Gray, who commenced under Professor Had- 

 ley the studies which were to make him preeminent among 

 the botanists of his time." Prof. Hadley, the sketch says, had 

 studied botany at New Haven, Ct., in 1818, under Dr. Eli Ives, 

 an excellent botanist of that place, and mineralogy and geology 

 under Prof. Silliman 



In the autumn of 1831, Gray became Instructor in chemis- 

 try, mineralogy and botany at " Bartlett's High School " in 

 Utica. The scientific department of the school had been under 

 the charge of a graduate of Eaton's " Rensselaer School," at 

 Troy — the earliest school of science in America— and Professor 

 Eaton's practical methods of instruction in chemistry, min- 

 eralogy and botany were there followed. Great was the de- 

 light of the boys in botanical and mineralogical excursions 

 with Mr. Fay Egerton, and their pleasure, too, in the lec- 

 tures on chemistry. In 1830, the writer left the Utica High 

 School for Yale College ; and a year later, Mr. Egerton hav- 

 ing resigned on account of his health, Gray took his place. 

 We had then no acquaintance and knew nothing of one an- 

 other's interest in minerals and plants. My minerals and 

 herbarium went with me to New Haven; and while I was 

 there Gray was 'mineralizing as well as botanizing, during 

 his vacations, in New Jersey and western and northern New 

 York. His first published paper is mineralogical — an ac- 

 count of his discoveries (along with Dr. J. B. Crawe) of new 

 mineral localities in northern New York. It is contained in 

 the twenty-fifth volume of this Journal,* and the title gives 

 Utica as his place of residence. He had previously made 



*Page 346. The article is in the second number of the volume, which was 

 issued January 1st, and is without date ; the one following it is dated^Sept. 6, 

 1833. The paper therefore was probably written in the autumn of 1833, after a 

 summer's excursion. 



