
          There are still a few lots here which
 will soon send. Among them are
 the collections made in New
 Mexico by Newberry when with
 Macomb.  He waits action on them
 to know if you will make out
 a list of them very soon for his
 report. If so I am to send 
 them on. Perhaps you will write
 me a line on this subject as
 I want to get them off my hands.


 Would not Columbia College
 contribute $50.00 annually or
 at least once, to Kennicott's operations
 in the North with a
 view of having a series of plants.
 He is now on the Yukon in 
 the interior of Russian America,
 and remains in the north
 several years.


 Very truly yours
 Spencer F [Fullerton] Baird


 Dr. Jno. Torrey
 New York


 report. If so I am to send

        