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The centenary of the birth of Professor Baird was celebrated in the evening 
in the auditorium of the National Museum. The following addresses were 
delivered: Baird, the man, Dr. Wrut1am Datu; Baird and the Smithsonian 
Institution and its branches, Dr. C. G. ABsot; Baird at Woods Hole, Dr. 
Epwin Linton; Baird and the fisheries, Dr. DAvip Starr JorDAN; Baird, the 
naturalist, Dr. C. Hart Merriam. 
A public announcement was made of the report of the National Committee, 
as follows: 
1. That Congress be memorialized to establish in the city of Washington 
a museum of fisheries and oceanography, with laboratories and a public 
aquarium, as a memorial to Spencer Fullerton Baird. 
2. That there be established a fund for the encouragement of research 
and exploration in the directions in which Spencer Fullerton Baird was a 
leader. 
3. It was the sense of the meeting that the name of Baird be given to the 
laboratory of the Bureau of Fisheries at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. 
On Monday, February 19, the four hundred and fiftieth anniversary of 
the birth of Copernicus, a commemorative meeting was held in the U.S. 
National Museum. Dr. C. G. ABspor gave a brief address on Copernicus, 
his life and astronomical theory. 
