THE YOUNG PROFESSOR 181 



now prepared with the advice of the Executive Committee to advance 

 a small sum for the purpose aforementioned, it being understood 

 that the results of your investigations are to be presented for publi- 

 cation in the transactions of the Smithsonian Institution. Please 

 inform me of the probable amounts required. 



I am, very respectfully, 



JOSEPH HENRY. 



From George P. Marsh to Spencer F. Baird. 



WASHINGTON, July n, '48. 



. I held a discourse with Mr. Hamilton certain days since, 

 and said to him what seemed to me good, touching you and your 

 relation to your College. Mr. H. was favorably disposed, seems to 

 appreciate the value of your services, and will, unless I misunder- 

 stand him, advocate the raising of your salary to an equality with 

 that of the other professors. I have not heard a word from Burlington 

 touching college matters since my correspondence with Mr. Wheeler, 

 and do not know whether any steps have been taken towards filling 

 the vacant professorship or not. I presume no appointment has 

 been made, because I do not learn that any meeting of the Board 

 has been called, but it is possible that encouragement of an appoint- 

 ment has been offered to some one. I shall write to Mr. Wheeler 

 by this mail and let you know the result. 



On May 19, 1848, President Robert Emory, who had 

 been a constant friend of Baird's, died at Baltimore. 

 June 6th Professor Merritt Caldwell, of the Faculty, died 

 at Portland, Maine. These deaths made a rearrangement 

 of the teaching force necessary, and the trustees met on 

 the 1 2th of July and, among other things, made Baird 

 Professor of Chemistry and Natural History, and raised 

 his salary to $1000.00 per annum. 



The name of the Preparatory School was changed to 

 that of the Grammar School. Dr. Jesse E. Peck of 

 Vermont was selected as the successor to Emory in Dick- 

 inson College. 



