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Garrigue proposed to publish such a translation 

 brought up to date and it is this which Marsh refers to 

 in the above cited letter. In accepting the editorship, 

 Baird undertook not only that function but the personal 

 revision and translation of a great part of the text; 

 supervising and editing the remainder which was entrusted 

 to specialises for revision. 



The correspondence with men devoted to the various 

 branches of exact science brought the editor into close 

 relations with most of those then existing in the United 

 States. He had, during his journeys and by correspond- 

 ence, already become well known to nearly all the active 

 zoologists of the day, and the work now undertaken, 

 which lasted nearly four years, was incidentally a means 

 of making him, after Agassiz, the most generally well 

 known man of science in America. The work was pub- 

 lished in 1852 under the title of "The Iconographic 

 Encyclopedia," and the contract with the publisher was 

 signed March I5th, 1849. After this was undertaken 

 the entries in his Journal become much more concise, 

 and often the word "Bilder" alone occurs to indicate 

 the general tenor of his occupation, which became regular 

 almost to monotony; being practically taken up with the 

 encyclopedia and his college work. 



He had meanwhile received the following letter from 

 Professor Henry : 



From Joseph Henry to S. F. Baird. 



PRINCETON, Oct. 2, 1848. 

 MY DEAR SIR, 



Your communication of Sept. 28th has just reached me at Prince- 

 ton. Prof. Agassiz and Mr. Redfield have in preparation a memoir 

 of the fossil fish of North America, which they intend to present to 



