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Professor of Natural History, and, although you may not receive 

 any emoluments, still it is an honourable situation. 



With sincerest good wishes, believe me always, your Friend and 

 Servant, J. J. AUDUBON. 



Baird's facilities for storage and laboratory were long 

 since inadequate, especially since he had added collections 

 other than unmounted birdskins. An old back building 

 on his mother's lot was now torn down and Carpenter 

 Doty engaged to put up a new one with working facilities 

 in it, for the sum of $320.00. Work was begun on the 

 nth of August. 



On the i6th we find him stripped and diving for a 

 drowning child at Pike's Pond, and applying first aid 

 when the body was recovered, but without success. A 

 few days later he went to Allendale to call on his friends, 

 the Crawfords, and found there a nephew of theirs from 

 Texas whom he immediately tried to inoculate with 

 the fever for collecting. This was perhaps the friend 

 alluded to by Audubon in his letter of August yth. This 

 young man had an apple of which Baird records the story 

 in his diary. "There were half a bushel which on Monday 

 had been shaken down on the ground on the side of a 

 hill facing the south, exposed to the perpendicular rays 

 of the sun. On Tuesday afternoon when I saw them 

 every one had the exposed side completely roasted, in 

 some nearly to the centre. Color totally changed, and 

 taste and color with all properties resembling a roasted 

 apple." On the 2Qth and 3Oth he was busy on a revised 

 list of the birds of Cumberland County for the Journal 

 of the Gettysburg society. This was printed in October 

 of the same year. 



On the second of September he and Charles Churchill 

 started on a trip to the Sulphur Springs at Dublin Gap. 



