INDEX 



Aal, Nicholas, 126. 



Agassiz, Alex., 428. 



Agassiz, Prof. L., 154, 169, 170, 183, 185, 

 1 86, 187, 1 88; elected Regent of the 

 S. I., 358, 388, 416; last visit to Wash- 

 ington, 389; death of, 390. 



Albatross, Steamer, 401. 



Allen, Dr. Harrison, 445. 



Allen, Prof. William H., 40. 



Amazon expedition, 299. 



American Fish Culture Association, 426, 

 427. 



American Fisheries Society, 449. 



American Museum of Natural History, 

 450. 



Ames, A. A. H., 171. 



Ames, Frederick, 401. 



Ames, Oliver, 401. 



Army Medical Museum collection of 

 crania, 385. 



Audubon, J. J., 85, 88, 90, 93, 121, 124, 

 155, 160. 



Audubon, Victor, 63, 91, 156. 



Ayres, W. O., 154. 



Bachman, John, 48, 63. 



Baird family, French origin, i; arms of, 2; 

 spelling of name, 2; settle in Chester 

 Co., Pa., 3; remove to Cumberland, 

 Co., 3; burial ground at Rocky Spring, 

 6; at Pottstown, 5; gathered at Car- 

 lisle, 25; genealogical diagrams, 17, 18. 



Baird Glacier, 433. 



Baird, James, 4. 



Baird, John, 3; marries Margaret 

 McLean, 3. 



Baird, Lucy Hunter, reminiscences, 14, 

 21, 35, 38, 65, 117, 143, 164, 230, 233, 

 235, 356, 367, 394, 412, 4i6. 



Baird, Lydia M., characteristics, 26. 



Baird, Lydia S., 5, 25. 



Baird, Mary, 42. 



Baird, Mary Douglas, 4, 5; removes to 

 Kentucky, 4, 6; to Indiana, 4, 6; 

 buried, 6. 



Baird, Sir Patrick, 2. 



Baird, Rebecca P., 5. 



Baird, Samuel (i), 4; marries Rebecca 

 Potts, 4. 



Baird, Samuel (2), born, 4; settles in 

 Reading, 5; marries Lydia MacFunn 

 Biddle, 5; children of, 5; dies, 5; 

 buried, 5, 12, 24, 32, 42. 



Baird, Samuel (3), born, 5; dies, 401. 



Baird, S. F., born, 19; infancy, 21; at 

 dame's school, 21; death of father, 32; 

 keeps meteorological record, 37; music, 

 38; story teller, 38; hunter, 39; enters 

 Dickinson College, 39; diary, 42; over- 

 exertion causes heart trouble, 43; 

 visits Philadelphia, 43; studies chemis- 

 try, 44; German, 44; copies rare works 

 on Natural History, 44; finds new 

 birds, 44; writes to Audubon, 44; 

 graduates, 46; visits Philadelphia, 47; 

 daguerreotype taken, 47; uses elec- 

 tricity, 47; experiments with blue 

 print photography, 47; shoots wildcat, 



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