THE YOUNG PROFESSOR 213 



has been adopted which will tend to keep everything under the eye 

 of myself and those connected with me. 



The rooms in the towers of the main building will be finished in 

 the course of the next six or eight months and they will furnish 

 accommodations sufficient for a year or two for our expanding 

 operations. 



I find on referring to your letter that you ask for a draft for 100 

 dolls, on account of collections; this you can make as soon as you 

 receive the note I am now writing. 



Your salary I presume will commence with the date of your 

 acceptance which may be considered the 1st of July provided you 

 enter immediately on the duty of your office. 



I propose leaving Washington shortly after the 1st of Aug. to 

 be present at the meeting at New Haven. Will you not be there 

 also? 



I presume that besides making your scientific excursions you 

 will be able to settle all your business at Carlisle and to commence 

 operations in Washington about the ist of Oct. I shall return myself 

 at or before that time. 



I remain very truly your friend, 



JOSEPH HENRY. 



This appointment, so fortunate for Baird and for 

 Science, opened the way to a field of the greatest useful- 

 ness. The salary was small for a resident of Washington, 

 even in those days, but a considerable advance on that 

 of the professorship he already held, and the latter was, 

 moreover, dependent on the prosperity and size of the 

 classes of the College, which fluctuated from year to year. 



On the 1 2th of July he left for a visit to his relatives 

 at Reading and three days later went to Philadelphia, 

 where he was joined by Mrs. Baird and Lucy, who, with 

 Caleb Kennedy, were to make with him a summer journey 

 to the North, in part a collecting trip. Passing through 

 New York and Troy, he proceeded to Lake Champlain. 



