132 SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD 
We expect to See John at home in about Six or Seven weeks. 
He has made a very poor Journey of this one, and will have to go to 
Europe this summer, I have no doubt. 
We are all well, and wish to present our respects to your Dear 
Mother and Friends among you. 
Your ever Sincerely attached 
Joun J. AupusBon. 
On the 21st of March Mrs. Churchill and Mary came 
to Philadelphia to purchase furniture for the house in 
Carlisle, with Mrs. Blaney as a guide and adviser. After 
this science and the Academy seem to have diminished 
in attractiveness, and young Baird was constant in his 
attendance on Miss Churchill, at shops, church, the 
theatre and the various sights of the city. On the 30th 
the Churchills returned to Carlisle, and the same after- 
noon Baird went to New York, where he stayed at Major 
LeConte’s, the second day going out to Mr. Audubon’s 
for a visit of some days. 
John Cassin had offered some time previously to pay 
Baird’s expenses to Boston, if he would undertake to 
verify the synonymy of certain birds, the references to 
the literature not being accessible in Philadelphia. 
Baird, having a desire to do some work of the kind on 
his own account, accepted the offer, and April 6th left 
New York by steamer for Boston via Newport and 
Providence. Dr. Brewer had engaged a room for him at 
Mrs. Lane’s, number 2 Avon Place. With Brewer he 
called on Dr. Storer, who showed him the proofs of a 
work on American fishes. Then to Dr. Amos Binney’s, 
where he saw what was considered the finest zoological 
library in the United States. 
He saw Mr. Cabot’s fine collection of birds, and noted 
especially the wild turkey of Yucatan. In the evening 
