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THE BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF G. W. CLINTON |
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THE BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF G. W.
CLINTON – February 1865 |
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[1865.] Feb. 1. Father Holzer called with some
plants, &c. Received & answered letters from Dewey & C. M. Booth. [1865.] Feb. 1. 10*40' A.M. Left, with Minnie,
intending to accompany her on her way to New York, only to Albany, but went
through with her, & arrived at New York about 11 P.M. of Thursday, the
2d. [1865.] Feb. 2d. Called, A.M., on Dr. Allen,
& on Dr. Bumstead. Left at 6 P.M. by Hudson R. R. R., & reached
Albany at 2 A.M. of [Feb. 3d] [1865.] Feb. 3d. Stayed over till Monday, at the
request of the Secretary [Woolworth], to attend a meeting of the Regents. [1865.] Feb. 5. The Regents received the Senate
Resolution of inquiry touching the People's College, and committed it to the
Com. hearing in change the former resolution of the Senate Com. in
Literature, of which Regent's Com. I was one, intending it to visit the
College &c., [=passage confusing]. [1865.] Feb. 6. Tuesday. At 1 P.M. Judge
Johnson, I & Secretary Woolworth, started for Havana. Mr. Downs, Charles
Cook's representation here, went with us, reached Canandaigua at 1 A.M. of
[Feb. 7]. [Havana was a postal village in Schuyler Co.
"upon Catharines Creek, on the line of Dix, 3 mi. from Seneca Lake, was
incorporated May 13, 1836. It contains a courthouse, jail, clerk's office,
the People's Colles .... It is a canal village and a station upon the Chemung
R. R. Pop. 1,290. ... This institution was incorp. April 13, 1854, and was
located at Havana Jan. 8, 1857. The college edifice ‑ the erection of which
has been commenced ‑ is to be 320 by 52 feet, 4 stories high, with a
basement. At either end is a wing, 206 by 52 fty., 68 by 64 ft., 3 stories
high. Above the basement the walls are to be erected of brick; the whole at
an estimated cost of $175,000. The institution is to afford instruction in
some departments of mechanics and manufactures, and students are to be paid
for their services. The trustees have resolved to establish 19
professorships.' (French p. 610 and ftnt. no. 3).] [1865.] Feb. 7. At 8 A.M. took the Elmira R. R.
and reached Havana, late in the afternoon, put up at the Morton House,
Professors Phin & Pickett called in the evening. Devoted residue of this day & the 8th to
visiting the College, taking testimony, &c. [Presumably this is E. J. [G?] Pickett of the
miscellaneous index as there is an entry there for Feb. 7 of this year.] [1865.] Feb. 9. Thursday. Rode to Watkins (3 m.)
at the head of the Seneca Lake, & took the Steamboat for Geneva. Started
at 8 A.M. & reached Geneva at 2 P.M. Took R. R. at about 4 P.M. &
arrived at Rochester at about 8*20' Took train at 11 P.M. and got home at
about 2 A.M. of [Feb. 10] [1865.] Feb. 10. Friday. Found a good package
from Rev. G. Blake. [1865.] Feb. 13. Wrote to George T. Stevens,
Esq., Wadhams Mills, Essex Co., to Prof Henry A. Ward, Bebb, Blake, Holzer
& Bennett. [1865.] Feb. 14. Wrote to Mr. Gould, Hudson
[N.Y.], and to Bennett. Met Everard Palmer in the Society's Room, he
introduced Jay A. Hubbell, Esq., of Houghton, Mich., microscopist, & both
concurred in recommending me to write to E. F. Bingham, Esq. of Houghton,
Botanist. Did so. Am to nominate both of these gentlemen, as corresponding members,
at the next meeting. [1865.] Feb. 15. Received letter from C.
Robinson. Wrote to G. W. Hazeltine,
Jamestown, for my reptiles &c, also to Mr. Robinson, & to Prof. Gray,
& Prof. James Hall. P.M. Received & answered letter from E. G. [J?]
Pickett. In the evening, with Mr. Joel Wheeler, called on
Mr. Stearns (Eagle, North side, 2d down West of Elm) & saw some nice
things, mainly from Syria & Palestine. Mr. S. gave me a specimen of a
plumose grass (an Erianthus?) from wet places on Mt. Lebanon, one of the
tare[s] of the East (a Lolium? perhaps temulentum, but the glume much longer
than the flowers, and the paleae not awned) and a piece of a pillar of the
temple of the Sun at Baalbec. Wrote to E. Hall. [1865.] Feb. 16. Called on Miss Addie Wilson, at
Gilford R. Wilson's, and wrote to her Uncle, Charles E. Smith [x], Esq., of
Philadelphia. [1865.] Feb. 17. Received a letter from Dr.
Stevens, of Wadhams' Mills, Essex Co., with some plants, & wrote him. Made up a packet to send to Gray, containing 1. Fedia from Dr. Clarke, Mich. = fagopyrum 2. Chenopodium opulifolium?
Niagara Falls. No! 3. Helianthus ? Chittenango Springs, [@illegible word] ? 4. Bidens ? Cayuga Marsh, chrysanth.
[=chrysanthemoides] var. of 5. Leptopoda? Buffalo, No! Wrote him & expressed it. [Leptopoda Nutt. in the Compositae: L. brachypoda
Torrey and Asa Gray, "Damp soil, from Illinois southward." p. 224
in Gray's Manual of 1862.] [1865.] Feb. 29. Received a packet from Canby. |
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