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Baird, S. F.—Continued. 
48; height at 18, 49; begins medical 
studies, 50; goes to New York, 55; 
lodgings in New York, 55; lectures at 
Bellevue Hospital, 56; nitrous oxide 
gas used, 57; drawing lessons, 57, 59; 
Fanny Ellsler, 57; visits Philadelphia, 
59; returns to Carlisle, 60; walks to 
Baltimore, 70; reaches Washington, 71; 
meets Audubon, 73; seeks position in 
National Institute, 77; returns to 
Carlisle, 81; elected a member of the 
Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, 81; 
and of the National Institute, 82; de- 
cides against medical career, 82; in- 
vited by Audubon to go to the Yellow- 
stone, 84; offers paper on new birds to 
the Philadelphia Academy for publica- 
tion, 94; begins teaching, 94; open-air 
classes, 94; joins the Musical Society, 
94; receives his degree of A.M. from 
Dickinson College, 94; visits Sterrett’s 
Gap and the Juniata valley, 101; blue 
print photographs of leaves, 102; prep- 
aration of bird skins, 103; collects 
specimens of local woods, 103; weather 
observations, 103; goes to Baltimore, 
105; reaches Washington, 106; meets 
J.D. Dana,106; returns to Philadelphia, 
107; snowy owl in the city, 107; visits 
Reading, 109; 21st birthday, 109; 
enrolled in militia, 110; parades with 
his Company, 111; elected member of 
the Boston Society of Natural History, 
113; meets Dr. Morris, 112; visits Dr. 
Melsheimer, 115; politics at Carlisle, 
114; blue print photographs, 117; 
votes for Clay and Frelinghuysen, 117; 
makes collection of trees and shrubs of 
Cumberland Co., Pa., 118, 119; goes 
to New York, 121; visits Audubon, 121; 
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Baird, S. F.— Continued. 
elected honorary professor at Dickinson 
College, 122; visits Haldeman, 123; 
elected a member of the Entomological 
Society of Pennsylvania, 123; erects 
new workroom, 125; rescues body of 
drowned child, 125; notes apples baked 
by the sun’s heat, 125; makes a list of 
Cumberland Co. birds, 125; trip to 
Sulphur Springs, 125; foreign exchange 
of specimens, 126; experiments with 
rattlesnake, 126; work proposed with 
Dr. Houghton on Lake Superior, 127; 
weight and height at 23, 130; elected 
member of New York Lyceum of Nat- 
ural History, and the American Asso- 
ciation of Geologists and Naturalists, 
130; visits Philadelphia, 131; attends 
Miss Churchill in Philadelphia, 132; 
goes to New York and visits Le Conte 
and Audubon, 132; visits Boston, 132; 
meets Dr. Storer, Amos Binney, Dr. 
Siedhoff, Dr. A. A. Gould and Asa Gray, 
132; visits Boston Museum, 132; notes 
on Boston, 133; visits New Haven, 134; 
notes on New Haven and Hartford 
R. R., 134; meets the Sillimans, 134; 
returns to New York, 134; Audubon’s 
gift of birds, 134; goes to Philadelphia, 
135; returns to Carlisle, 135; deposits 
his collection in the College Museum, 
136; early draft of plan for a history 
of North American birds, 137; he builds 
improved cabinets, 139; is made a full 
professor in Dickinson College, 140; 
engaged to Miss Churchill, 141; marries, 
142; removes to Mrs. Churchill’s with 
his wife, 144; notes on his courtship, 
144; open-air methods of teaching, 145; 
housing snakes and its consequences, 
146; theory of aversion to snakes, 147; 
