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APPRECIATIONS 



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"MiE death of Professor Baird was followed by a 

 universal expression of regret in the press and of 

 numberless eulogies in more permanent publica- 

 tions. Scientific men and personal friends put on record 

 their appreciation of his character and services. To re- 

 capitulate them all, or even the most notable, would 

 require volumes. It has been thought sufficient here to 

 present a few estimates from men who knew him inti- 

 mately, and which express the general feeling. For more 

 extended details the reader is referred to the proceedings 

 of the Memorial meeting at Washington in January, 

 I888, 1 where his work and personality are set forth by 

 some of those who knew him best. The Smithsonian 

 Report for 1887 and the volume on the Smithsonian 

 Institution, 1846-1896, by G. Brown Goode, published 

 by the Institution in 1897, may also be consulted with 

 profit. 



At Whitman College, Wallawalla, Wash., a professor- 

 ship of zoology has been named the Baird Professorship, 

 in his honor. 



Lieutenant A. P. Niblack, in 1886, named for the Pro- 

 fessor a large glacier in Alaska. 



1 Proceedings at a meeting commemorative of the life and scien- 

 tific work of Spencer Fullerton Baird, held January nth, 1888, under 

 the joint auspices of the Anthropological, Biological, and Philosophical 

 societies of Washington. Washington, the Societies, 1888, 8, pp. 37, 

 with portrait. 



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