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Museum, and much regretted. Mrs. Baird was almost 

 continually ill and the Professor himself did not escape 

 from various attacks of illness. 



Baird had not succeeded in interesting Congress in 

 his proposed seaside school of Biology or Laboratory at 

 Wood's Hole. After his arrival there for the summer work, 

 he had better success with private liberality. 



Wealthy men of Boston, Oliver and Frederick Ames 

 and Montgomery Sears among them, offered the necessary 

 funds. S. H. Scudder came down to Wood's Hole to 

 discuss his plans for a scientific weekly; which resulted, 

 by the aid of the guarantee of Alexander Graham Bell, 

 Major J. W. Powell and others, in the issue of the now 

 well-known journal called "Science." 



The proposed Fisheries exhibit at London, England, 

 in 1883, had already been the cause of much preparation, 

 and the exhibit was made with the usual success. On the 

 iQth of April the Henry statue was inaugurated with appro- 

 priate ceremonies. The summer was passed at Wood's 

 Hole, and the steamer "Albatross 7 began her notable 

 explorations of the fauna of the Gulf Stream region under 

 Captain Tanner. The following spring she entered on the 

 task of exploring West Indian waters. Another exposi- 

 tion, at New Orleans this time, called for much work and 

 many conferences. The Professor suffered much from 

 illness during 1884, and Mrs. Baird's condition was 

 deplorable. However, work went on, whenever possible 

 and even when it might seem to an impartial observer 

 impossible. The Professor's brother Samuel, long in 

 delicate health, died October I2th. 



The building at Wood's Hole, where most of the Fish 

 Commission force had been quartered during the summer 

 work, had been destroyed by fire and not rebuilt, and the 



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