THE YOUNG PROFESSOR 125 
Professor of Natural History, and, although you may not receive 
any emoluments, still it is an honourable situation. 
With sincerest good wishes, believe me always, your Friend and 
Servant, J. J. Aupuson. 
Baird’s facilities for storage and laboratory were long 
since inadequate, especially since he had added collections 
other than unmounted birdskins. An old back building 
on his mother’s lot was now torn down and Carpenter 
Doty engaged to put up a new one with working facilities 
in it, for the sum of $320.00. Work was begun on the 
1ith of August. 
On the 16th we find him stripped and diving for a 
drowning child at Pike’s Pond, and applying first aid 
when the body was recovered, but without success. A 
few days later he went to Allendale to call on his friends, 
the Crawfords, and found there a nephew of theirs from 
Texas whom he immediately tried to inoculate with 
the fever for collecting. This was perhaps the friend 
alluded to by Audubon in his letter of August 7th. This 
young man had an apple of which Baird records the story 
in his diary. ‘There were half a bushel which on Monday 
had been shaken down on the ground on the side of a 
hill facing the south, exposed to the perpendicular rays 
of the sun. On Tuesday afternoon when I saw them 
every one had the exposed side completely roasted, in 
some nearly to the centre. Color totally changed, and 
taste and color with all properties resembling a roasted 
apple.” On the 29th and 30th he was busy on a revised 
list of the birds of Cumberland County for the Journal 
of the Gettysburg society. This was printed in October 
of the same year. 
On the second of September he and Charles Churchill 
started on a trip to the Sulphur Springs at Dublin Gap. 
