ILLUSTRATIONS 



THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Frontispiece 



From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. 



LYDIA MACFUNN BIDDLE 13 



From a silhouette taken about the time of her marriage to Samuel Baird, 2nd. 



BIRTHPLACE OF PROFESSOR BAIRD AT READING, PENNSYLVANIA, 



FIFTH AND WASHINGTON STREETS, S. W 19 



Restoration from a photograph taken by Dr. W. J. Hoffman. 



SAMUEL BAIRD, GRANDFATHER OF PROFESSOR BAIRD 30 



From a miniature in the possession of Miss Christine W. Biddle. 



DICKINSON COLLEGE IN 1849 39 



From an illustration in The Collegian, Volume I, No. I, March, 1849. 



SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD 47 



From a daguerreotype taken September 29, 1840. 



MRS. LYDIA SPENCER BIDDLE, GRANDMOTHER OF PROFESSOR 



S. F. BAIRD 122 



From a painting in the possession of Mrs. Lydia Spencer Blight Hageman. 



THE HOME AT CARLISLE 144 



Restoration from photographs under the direction of James Rush Marshall, 

 Esq. 



SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD 203 



From a daguerreotype taken about 1850. 



LYDIA M. BAIRD, MOTHER OF PROFESSOR BAIRD, WITH HER 



GRAND-DAUGHTER AND NAMESAKE 206 



From a photograph taken about 1866, lent by Mrs. Moncure Robinson, Sr. 



JOSEPH HENRY, FIRST SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTI- 

 TUTION 223 



From a photograph taken in 1874 by T. W. Smillie. 



MARY HELEN CHURCHILL BAIRD 229 



From a photograph by T. W. Smillie, taken about 1882. 



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