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ical distribution of mollusca was almost entirely destroyed, 

 and doubt thrown upon many of the attributions which 

 happened to be correct. 



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



WASHINGTON, October I4th, 1842. 



. . . Uncle Penrose went to see Colonel Abert yesterday, and ascer- 

 tained that the arrangements for the preservation and arrangement 

 of the articles brought home by the Exploring expedition had been 

 made, and that there was no possibility of getting you a place. I 

 am sorry that this is the case, as it would have been very pleasant 

 for me to have you here, but so it is. He did not learn exactly what 

 arrangements had been made, but was told that they had been 

 obliged to leave Conrad out. . . . 



Baird spent a large part of his time copying from rare 

 books and reading volumes which were not accessible in 

 Carlisle. On the 3ist of August Congress adjourned, 

 and the following day Mr. Penrose left the city for Carlisle 

 while Baird stopped over at Baltimore for a day and then 

 took the train for York. He notes that at one time they 

 ran five miles in eleven minutes. From York he took 

 stage for Harrisburg and the following day reached 

 Carlisle. 



Soon after this he received a notice of his election to 

 Corresponding Membership by the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences at Philadelphia. 



During this summer he maintained a rather brisk 

 correspondence with S. S. Haldeman, 28 of Chickasalunga, 



28 Samuel Stehman Haldeman, born at Locust Grove, Penn., 

 Aug. 12, 1812, died at Chickies, Penn., Sept. 10, 1880. A man in 

 easy circumstances, his studies ranged over many fields of science. 

 He was especially expert in philology, and in 1851 professor of the 

 natural sciences in the University of Pennsylvania. He was of a 

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