[209] Ibid., p. 126.
[210] Ibid., p. 129.
[211] Mrs. Harriet Bachman died in July, 1846, and almost immediately a daughter was stricken with a fatal disease; "It seizes," said the father, "with a deadly hold, weakens the cords of life; and only relinquishes its fatal grasp, when life is extinct." (See C. L. Bachman, [op. cit.])
[212] New York City furnished (for vol. i) 82 subscribers, who took 86 copies; Philadelphia, 33; Boston, 27 (28 copies); and Baltimore, 15. In 1854 Victor Audubon obtained 129 subscribers for the second edition (published with reduced plates) in three days.
[213] For this and the following extract, see Ruthven Deane ([Bibl. No. 51]), loc. cit., p. 65.
[214] In the summer of 1846 Baird's nominal position in Dickinson College had been changed to an active one by his election to a professorship of chemistry and natural history, and his marriage had followed in August. The college had about one hundred students enrolled at that time, and the grammar, or preparatory, school attached to it, about half as many more. See Ruthven Deane ([Bibl. No. 51]), The Auk, vol. xxiv, p. 65 (1907).
[215] For this and the two following letters, see [ibid.], pp. 66-69.
[216] William H. Dall, [op. cit.], which see also for preceding extract.
[217] See [Vol. II, p. 275]; and [Bibliography, No. 6].
[218] This hastily written note, possibly a duplicate of the one actually sent, was inserted in a copy of The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (vol. i, London, 1847) which I purchased in London, August, 1913, and which bore this inscription, in autograph, on the title: