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was of gases and acids hydrogen and on
ygen, Davv and Gay Lussac. | never
could 60 into his study without b,e.king
my shins over rc,oits and cruciblcs and
on one occasion | was very near saving
the President the trouble of signing my
. .djpoma. bv swallowing murderous half
pint of oxalic acid which was standing in
"A drinking goblet on his study table, look
ing as innocent as cold water.


"Pray tell me, Jerry, used to say to
him, "of what possible advantage can it
be ever be to YOU to learn chemistry so
thoroughly. think that the smattcring
which most of us are content with here
is quite enough for gentleman. 1t is of
no use to stuff for a proiessorship, for you
see DIR. G. is quite a young man and has
no thoughts of resigning his -


Ball." he would say. Hang DR.. G.
| study chemistry because | like it. Be-
sides it may be scrviceable some time or
sother. Keep thing seven years and
tyou will have Use for it, as my guardian
said the other day when was going to
tSNC lciI Chiii'ti NY ShOOtli'S IdChct,
with the thirteen pockets"


Just when he had made himself good
practical chemist he found that he had
- satisfied the scntiment:' - and in his va
rious attempts to anal Use vegetable sub
stances, having had his attention drawn
to the subject Of botany he entered upon
the study of that science with great en-
thusiasm explored every swamp and for
est III the county of MiddIescy, and act,l-
'ally added two hundred new plants to
those enumerated in DR.. Bigclow's Flora.
Before the close of the sophomore
'year he had exchanged botany for min
,cralogy and when he had collected the
best cabinet in the State, except that off
the University, he dropped mineralogy
,and entered upon course of zoology,
with the same arcor as ever. Nothing
but the most methodical and patient in
dustry would have enabled him to follow
out these studies successfully without Sc
riously interfering with the classical and
mathematical lessons which were necessa-
Try for maintaining his rank in class-but
he did maintain it to the last.
To be Continued


