THE YOUNG PROFESSOR 181 
now prepared with the advice of the Executive Committee to advance 
a small sum for the purpose aforementioned, it being understood 
that the results of your investigations are to be presented for publi- 
cation in the transactions of the Smithsonian Institution. Please 
inform me of the probable amounts required. 
I am, very respectfully, 
JosepH Henry. 
From George P. Marsh to Spencer F. Baird. 
WasHINGTON, July 11, ’48. 
I held a discourse with Mr. Hamilton certain days since, 
and said to him what seemed to me good, touching you and your 
relation to your College. Mr. H. was favorably disposed, seems to 
appreciate the value of your services, and will, unless I misunder- 
stand him, advocate the raising of your salary to an equality with 
that of the other professors. I have not heard a word from Burlington 
touching college matters since my correspondence with Mr. Wheeler, 
and do not know whether any steps have been taken towards filling 
the vacant professorship or not. I presume no appointment has 
been made, because I do not learn that any meeting of the Board 
has been called, but it is possible that encouragement of an appoint- 
ment has been offered to some one. I shall write to Mr. Wheeler 
by this mail and let you know the result. 
On May 19, 1848, President Robert Emory, who had 
been a constant friend of Baird’s, died at Baltimore. 
June 6th Professor Merritt Caldwell, of the Faculty, died 
at Portland, Maine. These deaths made a rearrangement 
of the teaching force necessary, and the trustees met on 
the 12th of July and, among other things, made Baird 
Professor of Chemistry and Natural History, and raised 
his salary to $1000.00 per annum. 
The name of the Preparatory School was changed to 
that of the Grammar School. Dr. Jesse E. Peck of 
Vermont was selected as the successor to Emory in Dick- 
inson College. 
