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was hampered and finally stopped by his administrative 

 work, but in proportion as this latter increased he was 

 able to furnish materials and opportunities for others. 

 The pupils of Agassiz and Baird are the working natural- 

 ists of to-day and the teachers of those who are to come, 

 and the two methods of study are being combined and 

 developed to produce results of which we already have 

 good reason to be proud, and the end of which no man 

 can see. 



"Upon the roll of the illustrious dead of the National 

 Academy of Sciences his name stands out as that of a 

 scientific man of high attainments, uniform purpose, and 

 indomitable energy, whose work has already added to 

 the comfort and pleasure of hundreds of thousands of 

 his fellow-men, and which bids fair to be a most important 

 factor in supplying the necessities of millions yet unborn." 



Extract from the Proceedings of the Board of Regents of the 



Smithsonian Institution at the Annual Meeting held at 



Washington, January 24, 1894. 



The Secretary said that he had hoped that Congress 

 would pass an act providing for the erection of a statue 

 of his eminent predecessor, Secretary Baird, as it had 

 done in the case of Secretary Henry. Efforts in this 

 direction in the past had, however, failed, but though he 

 had foregone neither the hope nor the intention, the 

 present time was evidently not opportune to secure such 

 legislation. There was now no altogether satisfactory 

 likeness of Secretary Baird. The Secretary desired to 

 submit to the Board of Regents the propriety of author- 

 izing the execution of an oil portrait of the late Secretary, 



