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why I deemed it different from C. Cognatus, but I was aware of this 

 species being described by Richardson. 



I am a subscriber to the Royal Society since last year. I have 

 only the Vol. of reports and that on alternation of generations which 

 I should not have got, they belonging to a different year from 1847 

 in which I entered. 



If you get so many Menopoma allegheniensis you had better 

 send some of them to Leidy for anatomization, i.e. if his hands are 

 not already too full. One has been taken as low down in the Sus- 

 quehanna as Middletown or Conewago. You "have a new Sala- 

 mander." So have I. 



It would not "be too great a stretch" of anything for you to 

 borrow, and me to lend, Cuvier's R&gne Animal, new edition, and 

 you shall have the fish and reptiles as long as they will be useful to 

 you. I am not now studying these branches, so that the books are 

 so much lost capital, unless you will make them work for their main- 

 tenance. These portions of this fine edition are complete. I have 

 parted with the birds to Liebhart and the shells to Phillips, the balance 

 of the entire work I have. 



As to borrowing the works you mention in return, I may state 

 that to me mineralogy is "stony ground" and I wouldn't willingly 

 deprive you of the ability to make constant references to a work 

 rich in observations on our local fauna and which so dichotomously 

 arranges animals (horses, ducks, and cows, for example) into tame 

 and wild. 



Let me always hear from you whenever you think I can aid 

 you in anything for I want our work to be done and am not anxious 

 to monopolize. 



Dr. Schaum, an excellent German entomologist, is in N. Y., 

 and he goes to N. Orleans, thence up the Arkansas as far as he can, 

 and home again next July. I talk of going South-west next summer. 



Yours, STEHMAN HALDEMAN. 



On the 17th of December Rev. Dr. Wheeler, President 

 of the University of Vermont, came to offer Baird the 

 chair of Chemistry and Natural History at Burlington 

 at a salary of $800.00 a year. 



