1 865 TO 1878 385 



Theodore N. Gill, 1 the eminent ichthyologist, who had 

 been librarian at the Institution, was transferred with the 

 books to the staff at the Capitol. There is a gap in the 

 Journal between 1865 and 1870. Baird was doubtless 

 pursuing his usual activities. In 1868, the herbarium of 

 the Institution was transferred to the Department of 

 Agriculture on the same grounds that dictated the transfer 

 of the library. Both income and space were rapidly 

 becoming too cramped for the great collections which 

 were pouring in from all quarters. At a later date the 

 collection of insects was deposited also in the Agricultural 

 Department, which had begun its justly celebrated 

 activities in behalf of the application of Science to agri- 

 culture. 2 



In 1869 Baird's summer activities were exercised at 

 Eastport, Maine. He had for some time suffered from 

 occasional attacks of vertigo and sick headache, with 

 impaired action of the heart. For several years he fre- 

 quented a gymnasium in Washington, thinking, as his 

 physicians believed, that these ailments were due to 

 insufficient physical and excessive mental exercise. In 

 1870 we find him going to New York to consult Dr. 

 Hammond, an expert of wide reputation. The prescrip- 

 tion furnished him in the light of present day knowledge 



1 Theodore Nicholas Gill, Ph.D., LL.D., born in New York, Mar. 

 21, 1837; librarian Smithsonian Institution and Library of Congress, 

 1866-75. Professor of Zoology Columbian (George Washington) 

 University, 1884-1914; member of the National Academy of Sciences, 

 and of the Zoological Society of London. Died at Washington, Sept. 

 25, 1914. 



2 It may be noted here that both the entomological and botanical 

 collections, with their staff of workers, as well as the collection of 

 human, chiefly aboriginal, crania once deposited in the Army Medical 

 Museum, have been since restored to the National Museum. 



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