182 SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD 
After Commencement Baird started on a collecting 
tour to what he calls “the West,” which took him first 
via Baltimore to Washington, where, July 18th, he met 
Professor Henry of the Smithsonian for the first time. 
They had three hours together, and Baird was authorized 
to have the desired drawings made for his work, at the 
expense of the Institution. The next day he visited the 
incomplete Smithsonian building, and then returned to 
Baltimore. Thence he travelled along the line of the 
Baltimore and Ohio Canal, partly by stage and partly 
by canal boat, as he notes in the Journal “a very tiresome 
journey.” He collected from Cumberland to Meadville, 
Pa., travelling over very bad roads and by uncomfortable 
" conveyances, then by stage to Erie, where he took a 
steamboat for Cleveland, Ohio, “fare $1.50 including 
breakfast and dinner.” At Cleveland he visited Dr. 
Jared P. Kirtland,®! one of the pioneer naturalists of the 
State, a most genial and hospitable person, and others 
interested in science. 
A trip in a carriage with nets and preservatives, on 
fishing bent, was arranged by Dr. Kirtland, and on the 
15th they started southward. At Atwater Centre, where 
Dr. Kirtland’s brother-in-law, Caleb Atwater, lived, the 
Doctor was taken ill, and Baird left him there, proceeding 
with the carriage and a driver to Poland, collecting vigor- 
ously on the way. Leaving the conveyance with a nephew 
of Kirtland’s he returned to Pittsburgh and by the weary 
journey over the mountains reached home on the 25th. 
1 Jared Potter Kirtland, born at Wallingford, Conn., Nov. 10, 
1793; graduated at Yale in 1813, and as M.D., in 1815. Founder 
of Cleveland Medical College, 1843-64. Deeply interested in the 
Natural History of Ohio and the West, especially of the fishes. 
Died at Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 10, 1877. 
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