INDEX 
Baird, S. F.—Continued. 
401; dredging in the West Indies, 401; 
the Fish Commission steamer Albatross 
explores the Gulf Stream, 401; New 
Orleans exposition, 401; Samuel Baird 
dies, 401; a dormitory at Wood’s Hole 
authorized by Congress, 401; charges 
made against the Assistant Commis- 
sioner, 402; Baird seriously ill, 402; 
new administration troubles, 402; 
personal attacks on Baird, 404; he 
demands an investigation, 404; pro- 
mulgator of scandals forced to “eat 
humble pie,” 405; Baird consults 
medical specialists in New York, 405; 
relinquishes the management of the 
carp ponds, 405; goes to Wood’s Hole, 
, 4053 reception to the staff, 405; returns 
to Washington, 405; receives honorary 
degree of doctor of laws from Harvard 
University, 406; returns to Washing- 
ton, 406; recommends appointment as 
assistant secretary of S. P. Langley and 
G. Brown Goode, 406; visits the Adi- 
rondack region in search of health, 406; 
superficial improvement, 406; last 
letter, 407; death, 408; funeral services, 
408; interment, 408; his interest in 
fishes, 416; collaboration with Agassiz, 
416; his report on fishes of New Jersey, 
416; first visit to Wood’s Hole, 416; 
grant for fish investigation by the 
Smithsonian, 417; the first plan for the 
Fish Commission, 417; his visit to 
Eastport, Me., 418; his History of 
North American Birds, 418; his state- 
ment of his relations to the Fish Com- 
mission, 429; financial sacrifices for the 
Fish Commission, 430; an appropria- 
tion by Congress for his widow, 432; 
portrait ordered, 440. 
455 
Baird, S. F., appreciations of by: Memo- 
tial Meeting, 433; in the Smithsonian 
report, 433; by G. B. Goode, 433, 448; 
S. P. Langley, 434; Geo. F. Hoar, 437; 
John S. Billings, 438; Smithsonian 
Regents, 439; George F’. Edmunds, 440; 
Livingston Stone, 441; Harrison Allen, 
445; Moncure D. Conway, 447; Hugh 
M. Smith, 450; foreign honors, 449; 
American Fisheries Society erects 
tablet at Wood’s Hole, 449; bust pre- 
sented to American Museum of Natural 
History in New York by Morris K. 
Jesup, 450. 
Baird, Thomas 
Douglas, 3. 
Baird, Thomas (2), 8. 
Baird, Thomas (3), 5, 42. 
Baird, William M., born, 5, 41; marries, 
174; dies, 389. 
Bannister, Henry M., 377. 
Bardstown, Ky., 4. 
Bartlett, J., 254. 
Beardslee, Capt. L. A., 390. 
Bell, A. Graham, 400. 
Bell, John J., 89, 91. 
Berlandier, Dr. Louis and his collection, 
295, 296, 321. 
Berrien, John, 13. 
Berrien, John M. (1), 13. 
Berrien, J. M. (2), 13. 
Bibb, Geo. R., 176. 
Biddle, Charles, autobiography, 16. 
Biddle, Edward, 14. 
Biddle, Henry J., marries Mary Baird, 42; 
dies, 42. 
Biddle, Lydia S., 13, 14. 
Biddle, Mary, 14. 
Biddle, Mrs. M. D., 407. 
Biddle, Valeria, 14. 
Biddle, William, 9, 14. 
(1), marries Mary 
