198 SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD 



From S. F. Baird to William M. Baird. 



CARLISLE, December 6th, 1849. 



. . Your letter came this morning and the package this 

 evening. You need not apologize for the execution of the work; 

 it is done most beautifully. I will read over the parcel in a day 

 or two and write about it more fully. I am much obliged to you 

 for the emendations and improvements. By the way, "bahavia" 

 is the technical word for the contact of a mineral before the blow- 

 pipe. 



I am glad you liked the minerals. I have two boxes of superb 

 Norwegian minerals received from my correspondent, Mr. Aall, 

 which I rather think I will lend you till I want them. What say 

 you? I am daily expecting too a lot of fine ores of gold, silver, lead, 

 etc. I do not wish to hurry you about the geology, but would like 

 it as soon as convenient. It will come on in a few months and Profes- 

 sor Agassi/, can attend to the revision immediately; still, I want 

 you to do nothing to inconvenience or injure yourself. Did I tell 

 you of the superb lot of German fish and reptiles I received lately? 



From S. F. Baird to William M. Baird. 



CARLISLE, December i6th, 1849. 



. The manuscript has gone to Dana, but I have not yet 

 heard from him about it. How does the geology flourish? When 

 you have got through about half of the matter you have I want you 

 to send it to me with the text too of that portion without waiting 

 for the rest. The plates can all remain until the whole is finished. 

 The article on geognosy as distinguished from geology would make 

 a good breaking off place. 



I got my Rocky Mountain things yesterday. You never dreamed 

 of such a pair of elk horns with the skull and skin of the head. They 

 make two of Colonel Tuley's. Their weight is over fifty pounds, at 

 which they are charged in the bill of freight. There were two nicely 

 stuffed antelopes male and female, and a beautifully prepared head 

 of the black tailed, or mule deer. . . . 



