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Journal that it was a great relief to him. His interest in 
the economic work of the Fish Commission was constantly 
growing, and he endeavored by ocular demonstration of 
the processes involved to interest Congress and officials 
also. On the 7th of June he again took President Hayes 
and a large party to Havre de Grace, to see the shad 
hatching operations of the Fish Commission station there 
situated. General Walker, the Superintendent of the 
coming census of 1880, enlisted his aid in organizing a 
census of the fisheries industries of the country, in which 
work Professor Goode was soon joined. Provincetown, 
Massachusetts, was selected as the summer station for 
the Commission. On the way there Baird was prostrated 
for several days by an attack of nephritic colic of great 
severity. The station was served by the steamer “‘Speed- 
well.” Work closed there September 30th, and by Octo- 
ber 13th the party were back in Washington. 
January 23rd, 1880, Baird notes the death of “my 
oldest friend and ally,’’ Doctor Thomas M. Brewer, the 
oologist of Boston. Professor J. D. Whitney, former 
State Geologist of California, was completing the publi- 
cation of his projected State Reports, at his own expense, 
with the codperation of Alexander Agassiz. Baird was 
drawn into the work by their desire to have him prepare 
the two projected volumes on the Land and Water Birds. 
The work of directing the continually multiplying func- 
tions of the Fish Commission having come to a point 
where responsible codperation was necessary, Major T. B. 
Ferguson, formerly State Fish Commissioner of Maryland, 
was appointed Assistant Commissioner of the National 
organization. 
Congress appropriated a sufficient sum to enable the 
Commission to be represented at the proposed Berlin, 
