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The letter dated July 28, 1879 was handwritten on Smithsonian Institution stationary to Dr. William A. Harrand?. It concerns making appointments, holding off on decisions until a building is completed and after learning of congressional decisions. The second letter dated March 9, 1885, is typed on Smithsonian Institution stationary to Senator William Boyd Allison. The letter informs Senator Allison that a full set of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections were sent to the Grand Lodge Library of Iowa.
"In the course of a fascinating life at the center of nineteenth-century science, Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887) was the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the first U.S. commissioner of fish and fisheries (and, in that role, the initiator of what grew into the now-world-famous Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts), supervisor of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the first director of the United States National Museum, which he personally persuaded Congress to create." "Recounting the life and achievements of a great naturalist, educator, and builder of institutions, this biography reveals that Baird, though rarely a leader of expeditions himself, actively charted much of the direction and content of nineteenth-century science and museums. Rivinus and Youssef explore Baird's character and motivations, placing the details of his professional and personal life against the larger scale of politics, science, and culture and the founding of the Smithsonian Institution. They detail Baird's relationships with Audubon, Joseph Henry, and Louis Agassiz; his development of a scientific method now known as the "Bairdian School"; his skill at placing young naturalists on all of the major government-sponsored exploring expeditions into the western territories; his prodigious correspondence; and his considerable skill at influencing the leading politicians of his day (Baird's testimony proved crucial to the U.S. purchase of Alaska)."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
In the course of a fascinating life at the center of nineteenth-century science, Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887) was the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the first U.S. commissioner of fish and fisheries (and, in that role, the initiator of what grew into the now-world-famous Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts), supervisor of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the first director of the United States National Museum, which he personally persuaded Congress to create.
This bibliography of the works of Spencer Fullerton Baird is complete to the end of the year 1882 and contains 1,063 titles. Titles on Ichthyology are well represented, with additional titles devoted to birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates (mostly reviews) and numerous brief notices and critical reviews (775) contributed to the "Annual Record of Science and Industry". There are something under 200 formal contributions to the scientific literature. There are also a number of papers that touch on topics such as botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology, anthropology, exploration and travel, and industry and art, and zoogeography.
A biographical sketch of Spencer F. Baird, the second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, with emphasis on his contributions to the field of ichthyology at the Smithsonian and the development of the Smithsonian's fish collections.
Excerpt from Spencer Fullerton Baird a Biography Including Selections From His Correspondence: With Audubon, Agassiz, Dana, and Others At her residence in Philadelphia on June 19, 1913, died Miss Lucy Hunter Baird, the only child of Professor Spencer Fullerton Baird, the second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution of Washington and the organizer and first Commissioner of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, who died at the biological station of the Commission at Wood's Hole, Massachusetts, on August 19, 1887. It had been the wish of Miss Baird, who had been the close and constant companion and confidant of her father from early childhood to the time of his death, to personally prepare his biography. This was delayed, first, by the confirmed illness of her mother, to whose care and comfort was given all her time and effort till the death of Mrs. Baird, on December 23, 1891; and, secondly, by the state of her own health, which prevented the continuous application needed to bring the contemplated memoir to completion. In the interval, however, she had brought together and partially arranged many data relating to her father's life. Fearing that she would be unable to complete the memoir she devised all her own and her father's papers to the executor of her will with the request "to see that this memoir be completed by a suitable and competent person." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.