1865 TO 1878 385 
Theodore N. Gill,| the eminent ichthyologist, who had 
been librarian at the Institution, was transferred with the 
books to the staff at the Capitol. There is a gap in the 
Journal between 1865 and 1870. Baird was doubtless 
pursuing his usual activities. In 1868, the herbarium of 
the Institution was transferred to the Department of 
Agriculture on the same grounds that dictated the transfer 
of the library. Both income and space were rapidly 
becoming too cramped for the great collections which 
were pouring in from all quarters. At a later date the 
collection of insects was deposited also in the Agricultural 
Department, which had begun its justly celebrated 
activities in behalf of the application of Science to agri- 
culture. 
In 1869 Baird’s summer activities were exercised at 
Eastport, Maine. He had for some time suffered from 
occasional attacks of vertigo and sick headache, with 
impaired action of the heart. For several years he fre- 
quented a gymnasium in Washington, thinking, as his 
physicians believed, that these ailments were due to 
insufficient physical and excessive mental exercise. In 
1870 we find him going to New York to consult Dr. 
Hammond, an expert of wide reputation. The prescrip- 
tion furnished him in the light of present day knowledge 
1 Theodore Nicholas Gill, Ph.D., LL.D., born in New York, Mar. 
21, 1837; librarian Smithsonian Institution and Library of Congress, 
1866-75. Professor of Zoology Columbian (George Washington) 
University, 1884-1914; member of the National Academy of Sciences, 
and of the Zoological Society of London. Died at Washington, Sept. 
25, 1914. 
2 It may be noted here that both the entomological and botanical 
collections, with their staff of workers, as well as the collection of 
human, chiefly aboriginal, crania once deposited in the Army Medical 
Museum, have been since restored to the National Museum. 
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