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Baird, S. F. Continued. 



337; writes 3050 letters, 336; Civil War 

 breaks out, 337, 352; death of Kennerly, 

 337; visits Montreal, 337; illness of 

 family, 337, 338; ChurchiMs go to 

 Carlisle, 337; death of Mrs. Churchill, 

 357; of General Churchill, 357; sum- 

 mers at Wood's Hole, 363; fire at 

 Smithsonian, 378; elected member of 

 National Academy of Sciences, 384; 

 aversion to public speaking, 384; 

 summers at Eastport, Me., 385; ill 

 health increases, 385; tries exercise at 

 a gymnasium, 385; confers with State 

 Fish Commissioners, 388; assumes con- 

 trol of the National Museum, 389; 

 summers at Eastport, Me., 389; meets 

 G. Brown Goode for the first time, 389; 

 offered the Directorship of the Chicago 

 Academy of Sciences, 389; begins shad 

 hatching, 390; summers at Portland, 

 Me., 390; serves on Polaris investi- 

 gating committee, 390; hospitality, 

 390; Centennial Exposition of 1876 at 

 Philadelphia, 390; summers at Noank, 

 Conn., 390; confers about a seaside 

 laboratory, 391 ; plans a new house, 391 ; 

 introduces the German carp, 391; sum- 

 mers at Wood's Hole, 391; begins the 

 hatching of cod eggs, 391; summers at 

 Philadelphia, 391; serves on juries of 

 award, 391; meets Huxley and Dom 

 Pedro, 391; sister Lydia dies, 392; F. 

 B. Meek dies, 392; begins use of 

 spectacles, 392; plans new National 

 Museum building, 392; trip to Florida, 

 392; summers at Gloucester, Mass., 

 392; expert witness before the Halifax 

 arbitration, 392; new house completed, 

 393; church attendance, 393; death of 

 Professor Henry, 393; visits old school, 



Baird, S. F. Continued. 



393; at Havre de Grace, Md., 393; 

 elected Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, 393; excursions to hatch- 

 eries, 396, 398; summers at Gloucester, 

 Mass., 396; cod hatchery established 

 there, 396; he visits Windsor, Vt., 396; 

 member of committee on Government 

 Geological Surveys, 396; elected first 

 President of the Cosmos Club, 397; 

 granted house rent by the Smithsonian 

 Regents, 397; National Museum build- 

 ing authorized by Congress, 397; 

 steamer Fishhawk, for the Fish Com- 

 mission, authorized by Congress, 397; 

 placed on committee on ventilation of 

 the halls of Congress, 397; terminates 

 work on the Science Record for the 

 Harper Brothers, 397; organizes Fish- 

 eries Census, 398; summers at Province- 

 town, Mass., 398; seriously ill, 398; 

 death of Thomas M. Brewer, 398; 

 ornithology of California, 398; Berlin, 

 Germany, Fisheries Exposition, 398; 

 an assistant Commissioner of Fisheries 

 appointed, 398; Baird awarded highest 

 prize, 399; summers at Newport, R. I., 

 399; visits Carlisle, 399; hears Sarah 

 Bernhardt, 399; new quarters for the 

 Fish Commission, 400; summers at 

 Wood's Hole, 400; steamer Albatross 

 authorized, 400; reorganizes the Smith- 

 sonian and Museum staff, 400; plans 

 permanent station for the Fish Com- 

 mission at Wood's Hole, 400; gives 

 special attention to carp-breeding, 400; 

 deaths of H. E. Rockwell, S. S. Cutting, 

 G. W. Hawes and Mrs. Henry, 400; 

 seaside school of biology planned, 401; 

 a weekly periodical devoted to science 

 planned, 401 ; summers at Wood's Hole, 



