164 SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD 
until the building is in a proper condition to receive the specimens 
of Natural History and this will probably not be the case under 
five years. 
With much respect, 
I am yours etc., 
JosepH Henry. 
P.S. I hope you will pardon the delay of this answer to your 
letter as well as its brevity. I am so much occupied with the organ- 
ization, and so overwhelmed with letters, that without an assistant 
I cannot keep up with my correspondence. I send you with this a 
copy of the Report and Resolutions relative to the organization. 
J. H. 
In 1847 the elaborate study of fishes and reptiles was 
continued by Baird. Careful anatomical researches, 
examination of the blood corpuscles and skeleton were 
made by means of a microscope generously furnished by 
Haldeman, and many drawings made. 
Baird was giving at this time to teaching in the Pre- 
paratory School fourteen hours and, to the College, six 
hours a week. At the end of the college year his salary 
was increased to $650.00 a year. 
Miss Lucy Baird’s reminiscences contain the following 
notes: 
‘““My mother was for some time in her girlhood at a 
boarding school in Burlington, Vermont, where Mr. 
George P. Marsh resided. The school was conducted by 
a Mr. Crane a brother of Mrs. Marsh, who had herself 
been a pupil, and later a teacher, in the school. This 
was at the time my mother was there, and an intimacy 
arose between them which, continuing after Miss Crane’s 
marriage, led to friendship with Mr. Marsh also. On 
Miss Churchill’s marriage to Professor Baird he also was 
received into this group of friends.” 
