AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 



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-course. My first systematic guidance was received at the Agassiz Museum 

 in 1862; to the personality and influence of the 'Great Teacher/ Louis 

 Agassiz, I can never adequately express my indebtedness. 



I cannot close these ' Notes ' without reference to the most important of 

 the influences that have most happily and most strongly affected my career. 



In 1874 it was my good fortune to have won the love of Mary Manning 

 Cleveland, of Cambridge, Mass., daughter of the late Dr. Anthony Benezet 

 Cleveland and Mary (Manning) Cleveland, sister of the late Professor 

 William C. Cleveland of Cornell University and of Dr. Clement Cleveland, 

 an eminent surgeon of New York. We were married October 6, 1874. 

 She died April 17, 1879, leaving a son, Cleveland Allen, ten months old, 

 now in business in New York. Never could marital affection nor mutual 

 interest and sympathy be stronger than was our lot to enjoy. When the 

 end came there seemed little worth while in life. 



After seven years I had the equally good fortune to make the acquaint- 

 ance of Susan Augusta Taft, daughter of the late Daniel and Emeline 

 (Smith) Taft, of Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y. We were married April 27, 

 1886, and have enjoyed thirty-one years of happiness, unalloyed except by 

 her several acute but temporary illnesses, when again the light of life 

 seemed vanishing. My own health during this long period having been 

 by no means strong, I owe to her deep love and sympathy, to her supreme 

 optimism and constant watchfulness over my health, and to her inspiration, 

 the greater part of the little I may have achieved in these last thirty years, 

 and doubtless many years of activity beyond those I otherwise should have 

 attained. 



ADDENDA. 

 Expeditions. 



1865. Zoological Assistant on the Thayer Expedition to Brazil, under Professor 



Louis Agassiz, April, 1865-March, 1866. 

 1867. Collecting Expedition to western New York, southeastern Indiana, northern 



Illinois, western Iowa, southern Michigan, May-October, 1867. (A private 



enterprise.) 



1868-69. East Florida: Jacksonville, via St. Johns River, to the head of Lake 

 George, December, 1868-April, 1869, with two volunteer assistants (Rev. Thomas 

 Marcy and J. E. Brundage). Made under the auspices of the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology. 



1871-72. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, west to Northern Utah, May, 1871-February, 

 1872, with two assistants (Caleb W. Bennett and Richard Bliss, Jr., the latter 



