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he liad evidently added to their etficiency by severe discipline, 

 for he possessed that infallible mark of a well-trained mind, of 

 having all of his great and diversified stores of knowledge classi- 

 fied and grouped together in his brain according to subjects, sc 

 that he could call up his whole knowledge of any subject at a 

 moment's notice. Another remarkable thing about Prof. Baird's 

 mental composition was that with a thoughtful, scientific cast 

 of mind were united qualities of the most practical character. 

 Prof. Baird was a scientific man by nature. He loved sciencs 

 and scientific studies; but at the same time no man had a 

 sounder judgment or a clearer head in the management of prac- 

 tical affairs than he did. It is very rare to see scientific and 

 ])raetieal qualities of mind united in such an eminent degree as 

 tlicy were in Prof. Baird's. 



Prof. Baird was gifted with still another unusual mental 

 endowment which reminds one strongly of one of the traits of 

 the first Napoleon. With that comprehensiveness of mind which 

 takes in the Ijroad features and large general outlines of a gi-eat 

 enterprise, he combined, as Napoleon did, a capacity for close 

 and thorough attention to all the details of a subject down to the 

 minutest item necessary to success. This combination, as we all 

 know, is a rare one. 



Prof. Baird has been called a plain man. He was a plain 

 man indeed, Init one wlio was made after Nature's largest pat- 

 tern of man. He was large in mental calibre, and large in physi- 

 cal frame ; large in his broad sympathies and in his wide scope 

 of vision ; large in his comprehensive grasp of great aims, and 

 large in his capacity for great undertakings ; large in everything, 

 but small in nothing. 



President: This closes our exercises, and on belialf of 

 the American Fisheries Society 1 want to thank you for your 

 presence here this afternoon and your courteous attention. 



