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Baird, S. F.—Continued. Baird, S. F.—Continued. 
337; writes 3050 letters, 336; Civil War 
breaks out, 337, 352; death of Kennerly, 
337; visits Montreal, 337; illness of 
family, 337, 338; Churchills go to 
Carlisle, 337; death of Mrs. Churchill, 
357; of General Churchill, 357; sum- 
mers at Wood’s Hole, 363; fire at 
Smithsonian, 378; elected member of 
National Academy of Sciences, 384; 
aversion to public speaking, 384; 
summers at Eastport, Me., 385; ill 
health increases, 385; tries exercise at 
a gymnasium, 385; confers with State 
Fish Commissioners, 388; assumes con- 
trol of the National Museum, 389; 
summers at Eastport, Me., 389; meets 
G. Brown Goode for the first time, 389; 
offered the Directorship of the Chicago 
Academy of Sciences, 389; begins shad 
hatching, 390; summers at Portland, 
Me., 390; serves on Polaris investi- 
gating committee, 390; hospitality, 
390; Centennial Exposition of 1876 at 
Philadelphia, 390; summers at Noank, 
Conn., 390; confers about a seaside 
laboratory, 391; plans a new house, 391; 
introduces the German carp, 391; sum- 
mers at Wood’s Hole, 391; begins the 
hatching of cod eggs, 391; summers at 
Philadelphia, 391; serves on juries of 
award, 391; meets Huxley and Dom 
Pedro, 391; sister Lydia dies, 392; F. 
B. Meek dies, 392; begins use of 
spectacles, 392; plans new National 
Museum building, 392; trip to Florida, 
392; summers at Gloucester, Mass., 
392; expert witness before the Halifax 
arbitration, 392; new house completed, 
393; church attendance, 393; death of 
Professor Henry, 393; visits old school, 
393; at Havre de Grace, Md., 393; 
elected Secretary of the Smithsonian 
Institution, 393; excursions to hatch- 
eries, 396, 398; summers at Gloucester, 
Mass., 396; cod hatchery established 
there, 396; he visits Windsor, Vt., 396; 
member of committee on Government 
Geological Surveys, 396; elected first 
President of the Cosmos Club, 397; 
granted house rent by the Smithsonian 
Regents, 397; National Museum build- 
ing authorized by Congress, 397; 
steamer Fishhawk, for the Fish Com- 
mission, authorized by Congress, 397; 
placed on committee on ventilation of 
the halls of Congress, 397; terminates 
work on the Science Record for the 
Harper Brothers, 397; organizes Fish- 
eries Census, 398; summers at Province- 
town, Mass., 398; seriously ill, 398; 
death of Thomas M. Brewer, 398; 
ornithology of California, 398; Berlin, 
Germany, Fisheries Exposition, 398; 
an assistant Commissioner of Fisheries 
appointed, 398; Baird awarded highest 
prize, 399; summers at Newport, R. L., 
399; visits Carlisle, 399; hears Sarah 
Bernhardt, 399; new quarters for the 
Fish Commission, 400; summers at 
Wood’s Hole, 400; steamer Albatross 
authorized, 400; reorganizes the Smith- 
sonian and Museum staff, 400; plans 
permanent station for the Fish Com- 
mission at Wood’s Hole, 400; gives 
special attention to carp-breeding, 400; 
deaths of H. E. Rockwell, S.S. Cutting, 
G. W. Hawes and Mrs. Henry, 400; 
seaside school of biology planned, 4or; 
a weekly periodical devoted to science 
planned, 401; summers at Wood’s Hole, 
