New York Lyceum: After practicing only a few months, he became a schoolteacher and then was a librarian at the New York Lyceum of Natural History, a member of the scientific corps of the United States Exploring Expedition, and a professor of botany at the new University of Michigan. He wrote his first book, Elements of Botany, in 1836, and two years later collaborated with the American botanist John Torrey on Flora of North America.
He was graduated at Hamilton College in 1864, and at the New York University Law School in 1867. In the latter year he was admitted to the bar and entered upon the practice of his profession in New York. In 1883 he was appointed United States District Attorney for the southern district of New York; in 1894 was a delegate-at-large to the New York State Constitutional Convention, and was chairman of the judiciary committee.
He graduated from the lyceum in 1817, spent the summer at his mother's estate, Mikhailov-skoye, and began work in the foreign office at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) in the fall. During his stay in St. Petersburg, Pushkin joined several small, upper-class, politico-literary societies, attended the theater constantly, lived a carefree life, and worked on his first romantic narrative poem, Ruslan and Lyudmila. |
