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great and your science too, to accomplish all you have done. I wish 

 you all success and would be glad to do more than wish. . . . 



From Louis Agassiz to Spencer F. Baird. 



Oct. 9, 1849. 

 MY DEAR SIR, 



I have received your box in perfect good state, and return my 

 best thanks for all the fine things sent to me, which are equally 

 instructive and acceptable. The Lepidostei are particularly welcome. 

 I trust I shall be able to prepare a good paper upon them now. 



I have written to-day to Prof. Henry about the Conservatorship 

 of the Museum in such terms as to let him feel how important your 

 connection with that Institution might be for its advance in the 

 Nat. Hist. Department. 



Girard says the Southern Coitus is again a new one. I have not 

 yet compared it myself. 



I send two new plates for your revision and the names. Please 

 return them soon as Mr. Sonrel is anxious to have them printed while 

 the press man is not too busy and can take good care of them. What 

 is the number to be struck off? I think Prof. Henry said 1,000 for 

 the volume and 250 for us. You need not return the proofs, but 

 only send your remarks. Mr. Garrigue will have already written 

 to you that it will give me great pleasure to revise any part of your 

 translation of the Cyclopedia you may wish to send to me, and I 

 will do it always in as short a time as it can possibly be done. 



It has given me great pleasure to peruse your Batrachians. I 

 shall not fail to send a copy to Tschudi and though I do not know 

 where he is at present, I shall include it to a friend who must know 

 his whereabouts. . 



From Spencer F. Baird to Prof. Joseph Henry. 



CARLISLE, Nov. 3, 1849. 

 DEAR SIR, 



Many thanks to you for your kind letter of Nov. 1st. and for the 

 information therein contained. You must have been kept pretty 

 busy this fall between your gigantic plans for the advancement of 



