
          Smithsonian
 Washington Dec. 2, 1857


 Dear Doctor,


 What would you think of
 our sending on the ten plates of
 Leidy's Entophyta to Paris, to be
 engraved on copper. Did not [De Caiss?]
 promise to superintend any work
 of this kind? What do you think
 4to [quarto] plates like ours would cost?


 How long might it take to have
 them done? Have you received any
 proofs of these sent for Emory, and 
 have you any bills? I would much
 like to see a proof.


 How comes on the Plantae Fremontianae?
 We are sorry not to 
 have it for the next meeting of the 
 board. Cannot the next go on printing, 
 while the plate is being rectified?
 If it can be issued this
 month it would be highly desirable.


 Yours sincerely
 SF [Spencer Fullerton] Baird


 Dr. Jno. Torrey
 New York

        