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was hampered and finally stopped by his administrative 
work, but in proportion as this latter increased he was 
able to furnish materials and opportunities for others. 
The pupils of Agassiz and Baird are the working natural- 
ists of to-day and the teachers of those who are to come, 
and the two methods of study are being combined and 
developed to produce results of which we already have 
good reason to be proud, and the end of which no man 
can see. 
“Upon the roll of the illustrious dead of the National 
Academy of Sciences his name stands out as that of a 
scientific man of high attainments, uniform purpose, and 
indomitable energy, whose work has already added to 
the comfort and pleasure of hundreds of thousands of 
his fellow-men, and which bids fair to be a most important 
factor in supplying the necessities of millions yet unborn.”’ 
Extract from the Proceedings of the Board of Regents of the 
Smithsonian Institution at the Annual Meeting held at 
Washington, January 24, 1804. 
The Secretary said that he had hoped that Congress 
would pass an act providing for the erection of a statue 
of his eminent predecessor, Secretary Baird, as it had 
done in the case of Secretary Henry. Efforts in this 
direction in the past had, however, failed, but though he 
had foregone neither the hope nor the intention, the 
present time was evidently not opportune to secure such 
legislation. There was now no altogether satisfactory 
likeness of Secretary Baird. The Secretary desired to 
submit to the Board of Regents the propriety of author- 
izing the execution of an oil portrait of the late Secretary, 
