44 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
WASHINGTON, January 4, 1888. 
Sir: 
The Philosophical Society in conjunction with the other scientific 
societies of the city will hold a meeting on Wednesday evening, 
January the eleventh, in commemoration of the life and services 
to science of the late Spencer Futierton Barrp, Secretary of 
the Smithsonian Institution, Director of the National Museum, and 
United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 
Members of the societies, and ladies and gentlemen whom they 
may desire to invite, will assemble in the lecture-room of the Colum- 
bian University, on the southeast corner of H and Fifteenth streets, 
at a quarter past eight o’clock. 
Your presence on this occasion is earnestly desired. 
C. E. Dutton, 
RoBERT FLETCHER, 
J. H. Kipper, 
Committee of Management. 
Opening of the meeting, by the President of the Philosophical 
Society. 
Professor Baird as Administrator, Mr. W. B. Tayntor, of the 
Smithsonian Institution. 
Professor Baird in Science, Mr. W. H. DAtt, President of the Bio- 
logical Society. 
The Personal Characteristics of Professor Baird, Mr. J. W. 
PowELL, President of the Anthropological Society. 
Mr. Garrick Mauuery, President of the Philosophical Society, 
called the meeting to order at the time and place above named. 
