INDEX 
Aal, Nicholas, 126, 
Agassiz, Alex., 428. 
Agassiz, Prof. L., 154, 169, 170, 183, 185, 
186, 187, 188; elected Regent of the 
S.I., 358, 388, 416; last visit to Wash- 
ington, 389; death of, 390. 
Albatross, Steamer, 401. 
Allen, Dr. Harrison, 445. 
Allen, Prof, William H., 40. - 
Amazon expedition, 299. 
American Fish Culture Association, 426, 
427. 
American Fisheries Society, 449. 
American Museum of Natural History, 
450. 
Ames, A. A. H., 171. 
Ames, Frederick, 401. 
Ames, Oliver, 401. 
Army Medical Museum collection of 
crania, 385. 
Audubon, J. J., 85, 88, 90, 93, 121, 124, 
155, 160, 
Audubon, Victor, 63, 91, 156. 
Ayres, W. O., 154. 
Bachman, John, 48, 63. 
Baird family, French origin, 1; arms of, 2; 
spelling of name, 2; settle in Chester 
Co., Pa., 3; remove to Cumberland, 
Co., 33 burial ground at Rocky Spring, 
6; at Pottstown, 5; gathered at Car- 
lisle, 25; genealogical diagrams, 17, 18. 
Baird Glacier, 433. 
Baird, James, 4. 
Baird, John, 3; marries Margaret 
McLean, 3. 
Baird, Lucy Hunter, reminiscences, 14, 
21, 35, 38, 65, 117, 143, 164, 230, 233, 
235, 356, 367, 394, 412, 416. 
Baird, Lydia M., characteristics, 26. 
Baird, Lydia S., 5, 25. 
Baird, Mary, 42. 
Baird, Mary Douglas, 4, 5; removes to 
Kentucky, 4, 6; to Indiana, 4, 6; 
buried, 6. 
Baird, Sir Patrick, 2. 
Baird, Rebecca P., 5. 
Baird, Samuel (1), 4; marries Rebecca 
Potts, 4. 
Baird, Samuel (2), born, 4; settles in 
Reading, 5; marries Lydia MacFunn 
Biddle, 5; children of, 5; dies, 5; 
buried, 5, 12, 24, 32, 42. 
Baird, Samuel (3), born, 5; dies, 401. 
Baird, 8. F., born, 19; infancy, 21; at 
dame’s school, 21; death of father, 32; 
keeps meteorological record, 37; music, 
38; story teller, 38; hunter, 39; enters 
Dickinson College, 39; diary, 423; over- 
exertion causes heart trouble, 43; 
visits Philadelphia, 43; studies chemis- 
try, 44; German, 44; copies rare works 
on Natural History, 44; finds new 
birds, 44; writes to Audubon, 44; 
graduates, 46; visits Philadelphia, 47; 
daguerreotype taken, 47; uses elec- 
tricity, 47; experiments with blue 
print photography, 47; shoots wildcat, 
451 
