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Commission staff accompanied him and collections were 
made off the coast of Nova Scotia. Baird was not released 
from this duty until October 20th, and after the usual 
visits en route, he reached Washington November 3rd, 
finding on arrival that Professor Henry’s health was 
seriously failing. 
The new house, 1445 Massachusetts Avenue, was 
finished, and though a little late a house-warming recep- 
tion was held there, January 12th, 1878. 
Mrs. Baird was a member of the Unitarian Church, 
and the Professor purchased a pew there, where he often 
accompanied his wife and daughter, whose pastor was 
the Rev. Clay Macaulay, afterward a successful mission- 
ary to.Japan.’ 
On the 13th of May Professor Henry died, universally 
lamented. On the 16th he was buried at Oak Hill Ceme- 
tery. The Board of Regents unanimously elected Pro- 
fessor Baird to the vacant position on the following day. 
Grieved by the death of his old and dear friend and pained 
by the tactless congratulations of the crowd on his election, 
he left Washington on the following day, with his confi- 
dential secretary, Mr. Herbert A. Gill, of the Commission, 
and secluded himself at the hatchery station at Havre 
de Grace, Maryland. He also went to visit the old school 
at West Nottingham, where he and his brother Samuel 
had been pupils in 1833-4. ‘The then principal, Stephen 
Magnus, and all the teachers of his time were dead, but 
the school persisted in greatly improved form. On the 
20th of May he returned to Washington to take up his 
new duties. 
7Miss Lucy Baird having become a communicant of the Protes- 
tant Episcopal church in later years, the Professor while at Wood’s 
Hole frequently went with her to the local place of worship. 
