Letter from SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated January 14, 1859.
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My Dear Mr. Marsh
On my return from Philadelphia a few days ago I found your letter of Jan. 3' with its New Years wishes all of which I wish to reciprocate a thousand times over I only wish we and ours could have met this winter and compared notes for the past and future. I wish the latter may have in store a joint expedition to Quatrafage's hunting ground.
Today I have gone over again the books of your collection here and found a few more, which I send by express. I hope that the box forwarded some weeks ago has reached you in safety.
The barometer you speak of I never saw mentioned
before. Green can doubtless tell of their value.
Mary is pretty well, her especially comfortable. She is however much troubled with head aches. With love to Mrs M. I am
Ever YoursS F Baird
Hon. Geo P Marsh
The package will go by express tomorrow
References in this letter:
Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau was the author of the second volume of Recherches anatomique et zoologiques faite pendant un voyage sur les co)circumflex)tes de la Sicile.... 3 vols. Paris: V. Masson, 1845-1850. And The Rambles of a Naturalist on the Coasts of France, Spain and Sicily. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1857.
When the English instrument maker, James Green established a business in Baltimore in 1832, he brought with him the knowledge of the latest European technology to which he made substantial improvements. Green moved his firm to New York in 1849 and retired in 1885. His nephew, Henry J. Green, continued the business under his own name. Between 1840 and 1940 the firm manufactured most of the barometers for scientific use in this country.