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Baird, S. F. Continued. 



48; height at 18, 49; begins medical 

 studies, 50; goes to New York, 55; 

 lodgings in New York, 55; lectures at 

 Bellevue Hospital, 56; nitrous oxide 

 gas used, 57; drawing lessons, 57, 59; 

 Fanny Ellsler, 57; visits Philadelphia, 

 59; returns to Carlisle, 60; walks to 

 Baltimore, 70; reaches Washington, 71 ; 

 meets Audubon, 73; seeks position in 

 National Institute, 77; returns to 

 Carlisle, 81; elected a member of the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, 81; 

 and of the National Institute, 82; de- 

 cides against medical career, 82; in- 

 vited by Audubon to go to the Yellow- 

 stone, 84; offers paper on new birds to 

 the Philadelphia Academy for publica- 

 tion, 94; begins teaching, 94; open-air 

 classes, 94; joins the Musical Society, 

 94; receives his degree of A.M. from 

 Dickinson College, 94; visits Sterrett's 

 Gap and the Juniata valley, 101; blue 

 print photographs of leaves, 102; prep- 

 aration of bird skins, 103; collects 

 specimens of local woods, 103; weather 

 observations, 103; goes to Baltimore, 

 105; reaches Washington, 106; meets 

 J.D.Dana,io6; returns to Philadelphia, 

 107; snowy owl in the city, 107; visits 

 Reading, 109; 2ist birthday, 109; 

 enrolled in militia, no; parades with 

 his Company, in; elected member of 

 the Boston Society of Natural History, 

 113; meets Dr. Morris, 112; visits Dr. 

 Melsheimer, 115; politics at Carlisle, 

 114; blue print photographs, 117; 

 votes for Clay and Frelinghuysen, 117; 

 makes collection of trees and shrubs of 

 Cumberland Co., Pa., 118, 119; goes 

 to New York, 121; visits Audubon, 121; 



Baird, S. F. Continued. 

 elected honorary professor at Dickinson 

 College, 122; visits Haldeman, 123; 

 elected a member of the Entomological 

 Society of Pennsylvania, 123; erects 

 new workroom, 125; rescues body of 

 drowned child, 125; notes apples baked 

 by the sun's heat, 125; makes a list of 

 Cumberland Co. birds, 125; trip to 

 Sulphur Springs, 125; foreign exchange 

 of specimens, 126; experiments with 

 rattlesnake, 126; work proposed with 

 Dr. Houghton on Lake Superior, 127; 

 weight and height at 23, 130; elected 

 member of New York Lyceum of Nat- 

 ural History, and the American Asso- 

 ciation of Geologists and Naturalists, 

 130; visits Philadelphia, 131; attends 

 Miss Churchill in Philadelphia, 132; 

 goes to New York and visits Le Conte 

 and Audubon, 132; visits Boston, 132; 

 meets Dr. Storer, Amos Binney, Dr. 

 Siedhoff, Dr. A. A.Gould and Asa Gray, 

 132; visits Boston Museum, 132; notes 

 on Boston, 133; visits New Haven, 134; 

 notes on New Haven and Hartford 

 R. R., 134; meets the Sillimans, 134; 

 returns to New York, 134; Audubon's 

 gift of birds, 134; goes to Philadelphia, 

 135; returns to Carlisle, 135; deposits 

 his collection in the College Museum, 

 136; early draft of plan for a history 

 of North American birds, 137; he builds 

 improved cabinets, 139; is made a full 

 professor in Dickinson College, 140; 

 engaged to Miss Churchill, 141 ; marries, 

 142; removes to Mrs. Churchill's with 

 his wife, 144; notes on his courtship, 

 144; open-air methods of teaching, 145; 

 housing snakes and its consequences, 

 146; theory of aversion to snakes, 147; 



