store in Fair Street (now Fulton), and employed a boy as a clerk at a salary of two shillings a day. The experiment was a failure. After printing several books, which remained on his hands, he dismissed his youthful assistant, and sold at auction the stock that had accumulated--some seven thousand volumes. The venture had cost him about $150, and he realized only a trifle from the auction.
   The young doctor now fund himself sorely pressed for money, and was obliged to retrench in every possible way. The approach of each quarter day caused him the most painful anxiety, and he gives explicit details in his diary of his efforts to obtain the needed supplies. He even sent his electrical machine, on which he had been laboring many months, to his father's auction rooms. Feeling the need of  a greater reduction in their expenditures, he finally decided to remove to a cheaper house, in Liberty Street, effecting by this means a saving of $200 in rent.
   About this time, early in 1798, he drew and engraved on wood a full-length human skeleton, which he enlarged from Albinus' Anatomy. It was nearly three feet in length, and would be considered a creditable piece of work even in the present advanced state of the art. He obtained several proofs