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late Dr. Samuel Parkman, he established, in 1842, the New England 

 Quarterly Journal of Medicine. In looking over the only volume of 

 this periodical which appeared, one is astonished at its superiority, con- 

 sidering the state of medical science among us at that time. Many 

 of the articles are of a high order, and could it have been sustained for 

 a few years longer it would have done much for the progress of medi- 

 cine in this country ; but the mass of the profession were not able to 

 appreciate its value, and it was discontinued at the end of a year from 

 lack of support. 



After his withdrawal from the practice of his profession, Dr. Ware 

 spent many months of each year in the town of Rindge, N. H., upon a 

 farm which he delighted to cultivate, where he died, on the 3d of 

 September, 1887, aged seventy-three years. 



ASSOCIATE FELLOWS. 



SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD. 



Professor Spencer Fullerton Baird held at the time of his 

 death three important scientific posts at Washington. He was Secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, and 

 Director of the National Museum. He was born at Reading, Penn- 

 sylvania, February 2, 1823, graduated at Dickinson College in 1840, 

 and was appointed to the chair of Natural History by his Alma Mater 

 in 1845. In 1850 he accepted the position of Assistant Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian, and removed to Washington. 



Professor Baird was best known to science as a successful student 

 of Vertebrata, and he is credited by Stejneger and Ridgeway with 

 having originated the Bairdian school of ornithologists through his 

 improvements upon the previously existing methods of research. 



He had charge of the department of exploration in the Smithsonian, 

 and was very influential in securing the connection of scientific workers 

 with the numerous surveys sent out by the government, and took the 

 most prominent part in the working up of the collections brought home 

 by the earlier expeditions. 



He also exercised a very large and beneficial influence upon the 

 general progress of science in this country through his admirable 

 management of the department of exchanges in the Smithsonian. 



