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Navy of the U. States and of other persons such assistance as you 

 may think necessary for the accomplishment of the intended object. 



Respectfully your obed't. servt. 



JOSEPH HENRY, Secretary S. I. 



In response to a request for a personal conference 

 Baird went on to Washington April 29th to see Professor 

 Henry, and returned to Carlisle May 2nd. 



May 3rd, General and Mrs. Churchill and Samuel 

 Baird left Carlisle for the West, the general being ordered 

 on a tour of inspection of military posts ranging from 

 Maine to Minnesota and Fort Leavenworth. Doctor 

 T. M. Brewer 26 of Boston, and Mrs. Brewer came on a 

 short visit to the Bairds. On the 24th Baird gave his 

 last lecture of the session, and, as it turned out, his last 

 at Dickinson College. 



From Joseph Henry to Spencer F. Baird. 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, May 28, 1850. 



MY DEAR SIR: 



I have just received your letter of the 25th. It would have been 

 better had the engravings of the plates of the fishes been postponed 

 until the manuscript was ready for publication, but this is not a 

 matter of much consequence. 



I am much pleased with your proposition to prepare a manual 

 of directions for collecting specimens. I think it will serve as a 

 beginning of the more extended work which we contemplate prepar- 



26 Thomas Mayo Brewer, M.D., born in Boston, Nov. 21, 1814, 

 graduated at Harvard in 1835 and died in Boston, Jan. 23, 1880. 

 He was eminent as an ornithologist and oologist, on which he pub- 

 lished valuable works and with Baird and Robert Ridgway, joint 

 author of their great work "A History of North American Birds" 

 in 1874. He was a lifelong friend and coadjutor of Professor Baird. 



