INDEX 



455 



Baird, S. F. Continued. 



401; dredging in the West Indies, 401; 

 the Fish Commission steamer Albatross 

 explores the Gulf Stream, 401; New- 

 Orleans exposition, 401; Samuel Baird 

 dies, 401; a dormitory at Wood's Hole 

 authorized by Congress, 401; charges 

 made against the Assistant Commis- 

 sioner, 402; Baird seriously ill, 402; 

 new administration troubles, 402; 

 personal attacks on Baird, 404; he 

 demands an investigation, 404; pro- 

 mulgator of scandals forced to "eat 

 humble pie," 405; Baird consults 

 medical specialists in New York, 405; 

 relinquishes the management of the 

 carp ponds, 405; goes to Wood's Hole, 

 405; reception to the staff, 405; returns 

 to Washington, 405; receives honorary 

 degree of doctor of laws from Harvard 

 University, 406; returns to Washing- 

 ton, 406; recommends appointment as 

 assistant secretary of S. P. Langley and 

 G. Brown Goode, 406; visits the Adi- 

 rondack region in search of health, 406; 

 superficial improvement, 406; last 

 letter, 407; death, 408; funeral services, 

 408; interment, 408; his interest in 

 fishes, 416; collaboration with Agassiz, 

 416; his report on fishes of New Jersey, 

 416; first visit to Wood's Hole, 416; 

 grant for fish investigation by the 

 Smithsonian, 417; the first plan for the 

 Fish Commission, 417; his visit to 

 Eastport, Me., 418; his History of 

 North American Birds, 418; his state- 

 ment of his relations to the Fish Com- 

 mission, 429; financial sacrifices for the 

 Fish Commission, 430; an appropria- 

 tion by Congress for his widow, 432; 

 portrait ordered, 440. 



Baird, S. F., appreciations of by: Memo- 

 rial Meeting, 433; in the Smithsonian 

 report, 433; by G. B. Goode, 433-443; 

 S. P. Langley, 434; Geo. F. Hoar, 437; 

 John S. Billings, 438; Smithsonian 

 Regents, 439; George F. Edmunds, 440; 

 Livingston Stone, 441; Harrison Allen, 

 445; Moncure D. Convvay, 447; Hugh 

 M. Smith, 450; foreign honors, 449; 

 American Fisheries Society erects 

 tablet at Wood's Hole, 449; bust pre- 

 sented to American Museum of Natural 

 History in New York by Morris K. 

 Jesup, 450. 



Baird, Thomas ( I ), marries Mary 

 Douglas, 3. 



Baird, Thomas (2), 8. 



Baird, Thomas (3), 5, 42. 



Baird, William M., born, 5, 41; marries, 

 174; dies, 389. 



Bannister, Henry M., 377. 



Bardstown, Ky., 4. 



Bartlett, J., 254. 



Beardslee, Capt. L. A., 390. 



Bell, A. Graham, 400. 



Bell, John J., 89, 91. 



Berlandier, Dr. Louis and his collection, 

 295. 296, 321. 



Berrien, John, 13. 



Berrien, John M. (i), 13. 



Berrien, J. M. (2), 13. 



Bibb, Geo. R., 176. 



Biddle, Charles, autobiography, 16. 



Biddle, Edward, 14. 



Biddle, Henry J., marries Mary Baird, 42; 

 dies, 42. 



Biddle, Lydia S., 13, 14. 



Biddle, Mary, 14. 



Biddle, Mrs. M. D., 407. 



Biddle, Valeria, 14. 



Biddle, W'lliam, 9, 14. 



