
          January 18, 1854


 Dear Doctor


 I send you the sheets
 of Marcy's Botany. I endeavored 
 to have your corrections
 made as faithfully as possible.
 In revising to see if this had
 been done, I observed several
 places where I thought I deleted
 errors in the original, but
 as you made no correction
 of them in your proof, I of course
 did not venture to alter
 them.


 Dr. Bigelow left at Albuquerque
 a collection of over 1000
 species of plants to be sent in 
 the spring.


 Yours truly
 SF Baird


 Dr. Jno. Torrey
 New York
  
        