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Commission staff accompanied him and collections were 

 made off the coast of Nova Scotia. Baird was not released 

 from this duty until October 2Oth, and after the usual 

 visits en route, he reached Washington November 3rd, 

 rinding on arrival that Professor Henry's health was 

 seriously failing. 



The new house, 1445 Massachusetts Avenue, was 

 finished, and though a little late a house-warming recep- 

 tion was held there, January I2th, 1878. 



Mrs. Baird was a member of the Unitarian Church, 

 and the Professor purchased a pew there, where he often 

 accompanied his wife and daughter, whose pastor was 

 the Rev. Clay Macaulay, afterward a successful mission- 

 ary to Japan. 7 



On the I3th of May Professor Henry died, universally 

 lamented. On the i6th he was buried at Oak Hill Ceme- 

 tery. The Board of Regents unanimously elected Pro- 

 fessor Baird to the vacant position on the following day. 

 Grieved by the death of his old and dear friend and pained 

 by the tactless congratulations of the crowd on his election, 

 he left Washington on the following day, with his confi- 

 dential secretary, Mr. Herbert A. Gill, of the Commission, 

 and secluded himself at the hatchery station at Havre 

 de Grace, Maryland. He also went to visit the old school 

 at West Nottingham, where he and his brother Samuel 

 had been pupils in 1833-4. The then principal, Stephen 

 Magnus, and all the teachers of his time were dead, but 

 the school persisted in greatly improved form. On the 

 2Oth of May he returned to Washington to take up his 

 new duties. 



7 Miss Lucy Baird having become a communicant of the Protes- 

 tant Episcopal church in later years, the Professor while at Wood's 

 Hole frequently went with her to the local place of worship. 



