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science. This was one of the few occasions upon which he was induced 

 to ascend the platform in a public place. He was one of the early mem- 

 bers of the National Academy of Sciences, and ever since the organiza- 

 tion was a member of its council. In 1850 and 1851 he served as per- 

 manent secretary of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, and since 1878 was one of the trustees of the Corcoran 

 Gallery of Art, Washington. He w;is a president of the Cosmos Club, 

 and for many years a trustee of Columbian University. Among his 

 honorary relations to numerous scientific societies of the United States 

 and other countries are included those of foreign membership in the Lin- 

 nrean Society of London and the Zoological Society of Loudon, hon- 

 orary membership in tbeLinntean Society of New South Wales, and cor- 

 responding membership in the K. K. Zoologisch-botanische Gesellschaft, 

 Vienna; the Sociedad de Geographia, Lisbon; the New Zealand Listi. 

 tute; the Koninklijke Natuurkundige Vereeniging in Nederlandsch 

 Indie, Batavia; the Magyar Tudomfinyos Akademia, Buda-Pesth ; the 

 Societe Nationale des Sciences Naturelles, Cherbourg; the Academia 

 Germanica Naturae Curiosorum, Jena ; the Naturforschende Gesellschaft, 

 Halle; the Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, Nuremberg; the Geograph- 

 ical Society, of Quebec ; the Historical Society of New York ; the 

 Deutsche Fischerei-Verein, Berlin. 



" The nomenclature of zoology contains many tnemorials of his con- 

 nection with its history. A partial enumeration shows that over twenty- 

 five species and one genus of fishes bears his name, and that not less 

 than forty species have been named in his honor. These will for all 

 time be monuments to his memory as undying as the institutions which 

 ho fouiuled. 



" A post-office in Shasta County, Cal., located near the McCloud River 

 Salmon Hatching Station of the U. S. Fish Commission, was named 

 Baird by the Postmaster- General in 1877. 



" Even Jai)an was not unmindful of Professor Baird's services to 

 science, for from distant Yezo, the most northern island of the Japanese 

 Archipelago, came, soon after his death, a little volume beautifully 

 printed upon silk, containing his portrait and the story of his char- 

 acter. 



"The importance of his services to fish-cull ure was perhaps more 

 fully recognized in Germany than in any other country, not excluding 

 the United States. In 1880, on the occasion of the first great Inter- 

 national Fishery Exhibition held in Berlin, his name was found to be 

 widely known among the scientific men there present. "The magnificent 

 silver trophy which was the chief prize was awarded to him by the 

 Emperor William. This now stands in the fishery hall of the National 

 Museum. While Professor Baird's portrait hung over the entrance to 

 the American section at Berlin, the Kammerherr von Behr, the presi- 

 uent of the German Fishery Union, the most powerful and infiuential 

 fishery organization in the world, never passed under it without taking 



