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BAPTISTS. 



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present at the Halifax Fishery Commission in 

 tbe capacity of advisory counsel. His work 

 on fisheries has been honored with awards of 

 medals from the Acclimation Society of Mel- 

 bourne in 1878, and from the Soci6te d'accli- 

 mation de France, in 1879; the first honor 

 prize from the International Fish Exhibition 

 held in Berlin in 1880, and the order of St. 

 Olaf from the King of Norway and Sweden. 

 The degree of Doctor of Physical Science was 

 conferred on him by Dickinson College in 

 1856, and that of LL. D. by Columbian Uni 

 versity in 1875. For many years he was a 

 trustee of the latter institution, and from 1878 

 filled a similar appointment to the Corcoran 

 Gallery of Art in Washington. He was Per- 

 manent Secretary of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science in 1850-'51, 

 and edited the proceedings of the fourth, fifth, 

 and sixth meetings. In addition to being a 

 member of the leading scientific societies in 

 the United States, he held foreign or honorary 

 membership in many of the scientific societies 

 in Europe and the British colonies, and became 

 a member of the National Academy of Sci- 

 ences in 1864. The nomenclature of zoology 

 contains many memorials of his connection 

 with its history. One genus of fishes was 

 called in his honor by Prof. Theodore N. Gill, 

 and over twenty -five species of mammals, birds, 

 fishes, mollusks, and other forms of life bear 

 his name, together with several fossil or ex- 

 tinct varieties. His literary work was very 

 great, and a complete bibliography from 1843 

 till 1882, including 1,063 titles, was prepared 

 by George Brown Goode, and issued as num- 

 ber twenty of the " Bulletins of the United 

 States National Museum " (Washington, 1883). 

 From 1870 till 1878 Prof. Baird was the sci- 

 entific editor of Harper and Brothers' periodi- 

 cals, including the u Annual Record of Science 

 and Industry "(8 volumes, New York, 1871-'79). 

 The various reports and annual volumes of 

 the United States Commission of Fish and Fish- 

 eries were prepared by him, and also the an- 

 nual " Reports of the Board of Regents of 

 the Smithsonian Institution" from 1878. His 

 other works include the translating and ed- 

 iting of the " Iconographic Encyclopaedia" 

 (4 volumes, New York, 1852); "Catalogue of 

 North American Reptiles" (Washington, 1853); 

 " Mammals of North America " (Philadelphia, 

 1859); "The Birds of North America," with 

 John Cassin (1860) ; " Review of American 

 Birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian 

 Institution " (Washington, 1864-'66) ; and 

 ' The Distribution and Migrations of North 

 American Birds" (1866). His latest work 

 was a " History of North American Birds," 

 prepared with Thomas M. Brewer and Rob- 

 ert Ridgway (5 volumes, Boston, 1874-'84). 

 Prof. Baird's ornithological studies were placed 

 by him, in 1887, in the hands of Robert Ridg- 

 way, and since his death have been published 

 as " Manual of North American Birds " (Phila- 

 delphia, 1887). 



BAPTISTS. I. Regular Baptists In the United 

 States. The following is a summary of the sta- 

 tistics of the Regular Baptist churches in the 

 United States, as given by States in the " Amer- 

 ican Baptist Year-Book " for 1887 : 



The whole number of Sunday-schools is 

 given as 13,889, with 107,037 officers and 

 teachers, and 1,011,585 pupils; number of ad- 

 ditions to the churches by baptism, 155,378 ; 

 value of church property, $42,558,794. Amount 

 of contributions reported : for salaries and 

 expenses, $5,549,563 ; for missions, $849,837; 

 for education, $108,749 ; miscellaneous, $1,334,- 

 881 ; aggregate, $7,843,031. 



The " Year-Book " gives, of general statis- 

 tics in North America (including the United 

 States), 1,268 associations, 31.507 churches, 

 19,986 ministers, 160,173 baptisms during the 

 year, and 2, 844, 491 members; for South Amer- 

 ica (Brazil), 5 churches, 12 ministers, 23 bap- 

 tisms, and 168 members; for Europe, 67 asso- 

 ciations, 3,500 churches, 6,642 ministers, 5,488 

 baptispis, and 383,971 members; for Asia, 8 

 associations, 933 churches, 560 ministers, 

 3,467 baptisms, and 65,657 members; for 

 Africa, 3 associations, 82 churches, 56 minis- 



