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After Commencement Baird started on a collecting 

 tour to what he calls "the West," which took him first 

 via Baltimore to Washington, where, July i8th, he met 

 Professor Henry of the Smithsonian for the first time. 

 They had three hours together, and Baird was authorized 

 to have the desired drawings made for his work, at the 

 expense of the Institution. The next day he visited the 

 incomplete Smithsonian building, and then returned to 

 Baltimore. Thence he travelled along the line of the 

 Baltimore and Ohio Canal, partly by stage and partly 

 by canal boat, as he notes in the Journal "a very tiresome 

 journey." He collected from Cumberland to Meadville, 

 Pa., travelling over very bad roads and by uncomfortable 

 conveyances, then by stage to Erie, where he took a 

 steamboat for Cleveland, Ohio, "fare $1.50 including 

 breakfast and dinner." At Cleveland he visited Dr. 

 Jared P. Kirtland, 21 one of the pioneer naturalists of the 

 State, a most genial and hospitable person, and others 

 interested in science. 



A trip in a carriage with nets and preservatives, on 

 fishing bent, was arranged by Dr. Kirtland, and on the 

 1 5th they started southward. At Atwater Centre, where 

 Dr. Kirtland's brother-in-law, Caleb Atwater, lived, the 

 Doctor was taken ill, and Baird left him there, proceeding 

 with the carriage and a driver to Poland, collecting vigor- 

 ously on the way. Leaving the conveyance with a nephew 

 of Kirtland's he returned to Pittsburgh and by the weary 

 journey over the mountains reached home on the 25th. 



21 Jared Potter Kirtland, born at Wallingford, Conn., Nov. 10, 

 1793; graduated at Yale in 1813, and as M.D., in 1815. Founder 

 of Cleveland Medical College, 1843-64. Deeply interested in the 

 Natural History of Ohio and the West, especially of the fishes. 

 Died at Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 10, 1877. 



