APPRECIATIONS 449 



Among the more notable of the honors received by 

 Baird during his lifetime, the following foreign awards 

 may be enumerated: 



Knight of the Royal Order of St. Olaf, received from 

 the King of Norway and Sweden, 1875. 



Silver medal of the Acclimatization Society of Mel- 

 bourne, Australia, in 1878. 



Gold medal of the Societe d'Acclimatation de France, 

 in 1879. 



Erster Ehrenpreis der International Fischerei Ausstel- 

 lung, gift of the Emperor of Germany, in 1880. 



With his customary modesty Baird seems to have 

 kept no list of the multitudinous societies which had made 

 him Honorary, Corresponding or Foreign Member during 

 his years of activity. 



At Wood's Hole, the scene of his arduous labors, a 

 granite boulder lies near the water bearing a bronze tablet 

 placed there by the American Fisheries Society and in- 

 scribed as follows: 



In memory of 

 SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD 



U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries 1871-1887 

 Born 1823. Died at Wood's Hole 1887 



The American Fisheries Society places this tablet 

 in appreciation of his inestimable services to 

 Ichthyology, Fish Culture and the Fisheries 



1902 



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