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APPRECIATIONS 
HE death of Professor Baird was followed by a 
universal expression of regret in the press and of 
numberless eulogies in more permanent publica- 
tions. Scientific men and personal friends put on record 
their appreciation of his character and services. To re- 
capitulate them all, or even the most notable, would 
require volumes. It has been thought sufficient here to 
present a few estimates from men who knew him inti- 
mately, and which express the general feeling. For more 
extended details the reader is referred to the proceedings 
of the Memorial meeting at Washington in January, 
1888,! where his work and personality are set forth by 
some of those who knew him best. The Smithsonian 
Report for 1887 and the volume on the Smithsonian 
Institution, 1846-1896, by G. Brown Goode, published 
by the Institution in 1897, may also be consulted with 
profit. 
At Whitman College, Wallawalla, Wash., a professor- 
ship of zoology has been named the Baird Professorship, 
in his honor. 
Lieutenant A. P. Niblack, in 1886, named for the Pro- 
fessor a large glacier in Alaska. 
1 Proceedings at a meeting commemorative of the life and scien- 
tific work of Spencer Fullerton Baird, held January 11th, 1888, under 
the joint auspices of the Anthropological, Biological, and Philosophical 
societies of Washington. Washington, the Societies, 1888, 8°, pp. 37, 
with portrait. 
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