450 SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD 
Saturday, December 29, 1906, a series of ten portrait 
busts of pioneers in American Science, the work of William 
Couper, was presented to the American Museum of 
Natural History, New York City, by Mr. Morris K. Jesup. 
These included Benjamin Franklin, Alexander von Hum- 
boldt, John James Audubon, John Torrey, Joseph Henry, 
Louis Agassiz, James Dwight Dana, Spencer Fullerton 
Baird, Joseph Leidy, and Edward Drinker Cope. 
The unveiling was accompanied by appropriate ad- 
dresses in the auditorium of the Museum, before a large 
audience of members, friends and invited guests. 
The address in connection with the bust of Professor 
Baird was delivered by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, his present 
successor as Commissioner of Fisheries; and an illustrated 
account of the meeting, with photo-engravings of the 
sculptures and the hall in which they stand, was published 
by the Museum in April, 1907. 
