REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 13 



The Secretary was asked to give, at the annual meet- 

 ing, a summary of the growth of the Academy for the 

 fifteen years of its existence. 



It was the opinion of the Council that the section chair- 

 men should be asked to secure papers for the annual 

 meeting from high school teachers and from those be- 

 ginning research work, and not so many as in recent 

 years from university research professors. 



A communication from the Baird Memorial Commit- 

 tee of Washington, D. C, was read and discussed. The 

 communication stated that the 100th anniversary of the 

 birth of Spencer Fullerton Baird is to be commemorated 

 February 3rd, 1923, and that the committee is being 

 formed in Washington to decide on the most appropriate 

 form for the memorial, and that our Academy, with other 

 organizations, is asked to appoint a delegate to meet with 

 the committee, and to offer suggestions for a fitting me- 

 morial. 



Dr. Baird was not only Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institute, but he was the virtual founder of the U. S. 

 National Museum, the creator and head of the U. S. Fish 

 Commission, and the prime mover in the establishment 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology. 



President Bayley w T as authorized to write to Dr. H. E. 

 Ewing, one of our members in Washington, and ask him 

 to represent the Academy on the Baird Memorial Com- 

 mittee, and to express the Council's view that a bust 

 statue or bronze tablet would be most appropriate for the 

 memorial. 



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