APPRECIATIONS 449 
Among the more notable of the honors received by 
Baird during his lifetime, the following foreign awards 
may be enumerated: 
Knight of the Royal Order of St. Olaf, received from 
the King of Norway and Sweden, 1875. 
Silver medal of the Acclimatization Society of Mel- 
bourne, Australia, in 1878. 
Gold medal of the Société d’Acclimatation de France, 
in 1879. 
Erster Ehrenpreis der International Fischerei Ausstel- 
lung, gift of the Emperor of Germany, in 1880. 
With his customary modesty Baird seems to have 
kept no list of the multitudinous societies which had made 
him Honorary, Corresponding or Foreign Member during 
his years of activity. , 
At Wood’s Hole, the scene of his arduous labors, a 
granite boulder lies near the water bearing a bronze tablet 
placed there by the American Fisheries Society and in- 
scribed as follows: 
In memory of 
SPENCER FULLERTON BairpD 
U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries 1871-1887 
Born 1823. Died at Wood’s Hole 1887 
The American Fisheries Society places this tablet 
in appreciation of his inestimable services to 
Ichthyology, Fish Culture and the Fisheries 
1902 
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