716 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS. 



science of the late Spencer Fullerton Baird, Secretary of the 

 Sinitlisoiiiaii Institution, Director of the National Museum, and United 

 States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 



Members of the societies, and ladies and gentlemen whom they may 

 desire to invite, will assemble in the lecture-room of the Columbian Uni- 

 versity, on the southeast corner of H and Fifteenth streets, at a quarter 

 past eight o'clock. 

 Your presence on this occasion is earnestly desired. 



C. E. Button, 

 Robert Fletcher, 

 J. H. Kidder, 

 Committee of Management. 



Opening of the meeting, by the president of the Philosophical Society. 



Professor Baird as Administrator, Mr. W. B. Taylor, of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



Professor Baird in Science, Mr. W. H. Dall, president of the Bio- 

 logical Society. 



The Personal Characteristics of Professor Baird, Mr. J. W. Powell, 

 president of the Anthropological Society. 



Mr. Garrick Mallery, president of the Philosophical Society, called 

 the meeting to order at the time and place above named. 



