
          Smithsonian Institution
 Washington May 31 1852


 My dear Dr.


 Craighead has just written
 to know about commencing to 
 print the Plantae Fremontianae
 as this has been delayed already
 so long, if you have no objections.
 We would prefer letting it lie
 over until the fall, as we are now
 in the midst of getting ready
 for the issue of our 3rd & 4th vols [volumes], and
 have no time to attend to this
 paper. I expect to leave here as
 soon as I can get through the work
 (say by the end of June) and would
 not be on hand to attend to the 
 details of furnishing plates, harmoniously 
 type etc. Let me know
 if this will answer your purposes
 and oblige.


 Yours truly
 SF [Spencer Fullerton] Baird


 Dr. [Doctor] Jno. [John] Torrey
 New York

        