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PROFESSOR SPENCER F. BAIRD. 
At an election held by the trustees of the Smithsonian In- 
stitution, on the occasion of the vacation of the position of 
Secretary caused by the death of the much lamented Profea- 
sor Henry, Professor Spencer F. Baird was unanimously 
chosen as Secretary. It may be said that no higher scientific 
position nor place of greater trust is accessuble to any one in 
the United States. Tha choice of the trustees means the 
merited approval of the country, and is a just reward to the 
admirable administrative powers and high scientific acquire- 
ments of the present incumbent. Endeavoring in every way 
to follow out the wishes of the founder of the Smithsonian In- 
stitution to make it the great fountain head in America for 
the distribution of general knowledge, the efforts of Professor 
Baird in the past are as a guarantee of the future. 
One of the greatest gifts Professor Baird possesses, apart 
from his cosmical knowledge, is this peculiar inherent power : 
by simple contact alone he imbues those who work with him 
or under him with a truer love of science for science’s sake 
alone. In administrative ability, in the practical handling of 
vast subjects, in steadfast philosophical research, in putting 
aside without an effort the chaff, and in seizing in the grain, 
always holding steadfastly before him the great public good, 
Professor Baird has few equals among that learned group of 
men who stand in the first rank in the history of our country. 
MANHATTAN BEACH AND WHITE- 
BAIT. 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COMING 
WEf K. 
Friday. May 24.— Creedmoor— Short Re ge: * 1 Natlo al Guardsman " 
,n(l o her mat' hen ; subscrlptlona a <1 stat'd pr zen. Long Range-, 
hirpu’ Mlltary Tam; aubacrlptl' ua and ma'td prizes, bowing: 
'nlv. of Pa , .luDora va. irehnitn. Yarhi RevatU at Gmtnock. 
log Show ui Worcester, base Bull : Alle^li' ny vs Rochesier, at Hoch- 
ster ; Bnff lo vs. Tecnmse", at London. Trotting: Hillsdale, Mich, 
tanning Meetings : Baltimore, Md.; Louisville, Ky. 
Saturday. May 25.— Creedmoor— Short Range: Directors’ Match; 
ilinary ream Match ; Carbine Team Match ; Subscriptions and stated 
irlzes. M Id-Range: “National Guardsman ’ Match ; Subscriptions 
ml • tated prizes. Cricket : Philadelphia vs.Young Americas, at Nlee- 
own; Mvrlon vs. Germantown, al Ardmore ; Dorian vs. Philadelphia, 
,t Haverford. Mystic Boat Club Games, at waverly Park. Newark, 
iase Bull: Utld vs Live oak, at L'Dn; Allegheny vs. Buffalo, at Buf- 
ilo; Indlanapo Is vs Milwaukee at Milwaukee; Cincinnati vs. Chlca- 
;o, i Chicago. Runumg Meeting; Louisville, Ky. 
Monday, May 2: — Sou'Uwark, Phila , Yacht Club Regatta. Base 
i ; Utica vs. Lynn, at Lynn. Running Meeting at Louisville. Ky. 
Ttusday, May 28 -WatkmB Open Amateur Regatta. Base Bell : In- 
llanap 'Us vs. Cincinnati, at Cincinnati; Milwaukee vs. Providence, at 
P.ovidence. Trotting . Le Rov, N. Y.; Parker City, Pa ; Providence, 
R. I.; Point Breeze Park, Phtla.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Freeport, ill. 
Wednesday, May 29. — Wa'klns Open Regatta. Cricket: Merlon va. 
Baltimore, at Ardmore. Trotting aa above ; also at Princeton, N. J., 
?i>dHud on, Mich. 
ThuZday', May 80.-Watklns Open Amateor Regatta ; Eastern Row- 
ng A-Bocla'tl' u Chpon Reguttu; Brown University Class Races ; South 
3ar llua -nuuai Regatta, at Chsrlea'ou ; Atlantic Yacht Club, Brook- 
iy Op. nlDg D y ; Providence, R. I.. Yacht Club Regaua, at Bullock's 
point; Sou in Boamn Yacht dub Union Regatta, Club Course; Knlck- 
.roocker Yacht Club Openli g R.gaita. New York Athletic Club 
Games, at Mott Raven ; Yonkers Lyceum Game s. Cricket . St George 
va. Philadelphia, a; Horn ken; Germantown vs. Belmont, at Nlcetown; 
M ilon (vet ) vs. i ommerclii) Exchnnge. Base Ball: Chicago vs. Bos- 
ton, at Beaton; Milwaukee vs. Providence, at Providence; Indianapo- 
lis v » Ciucl n st cine nnuil. Tr ttlng as above, and at Delphoa, O. 
Kuum g Me* ting at Jerome Park. 
moment, the fine music of Grafulla’s band filled up 
the hiatus. That whitebait were eaten with gusto is quite 
evident from the fact that in a twinkling all the plates 
were emptied. No loDger, then, will free Americans be 
subservient to aristocratic Englishmen. Should, then, 
Lord Beaconsfleld resign, and the Tories lose power 
in England, we should not hesitate a momentto invite Disraeli 
to the Manhattan Beach House, feeling sure that we could 
give him quite as good a dinner— whitebait included— as the 
Premier ever enjoyed at any Ministerial repast at Greenwich. 
We shall be sending whitebait to London before very long. 
WniTE-BAiT.— It is hardly necessary to add anything more 
to the facts in regard to white bait. However, to set all mat- 
ters at rost, we publish the following letter from the Secretary 
of the Smithsonian Institution : 
<• Dear Mr. Black/wd— Mr. Bean and Prof. Goode have 
been examining the question of white-bait, and find the speci- 
mens to contain the young of two distinct species— one the 
Pomolobus pseudo harengus, the common alewife or gas- 
pereau, the other, the P. mediocris, or sea or Taylor shad. It 
is probable that some other species may also be mixed in, such 
as the young of the sea-herring, Glupm elongata , the thread 
herring, etc. The English white-bait is now generally con- 
sidered to be composed of young fish, possibly of one or both 
species of English shad, the sprat, etc. A great deal of dis- 
cussion has been wasted upon the subject, especially as to 
whether the sizes usually caught represent a distinct, fully 
"Town species. So far, there is no evidence of that fact. 
“ Yours truly, Spenokr F. Baikd, Commissioner.” 
— NolporUrrian should think of going into the country for the 
tmmt< without a copy »J tlu Sportsman's Gazetteer Consult 
, j,>r choi r of routes, localities, outfits, kinds of fish to be 
tug/U and the methods of taking them. 
C ERTAINLY, when matters ichthyological and gastrono- 
mic can be combined, the pleasures are twofold ; but 
when, in addition to these two elements, the one purely 
scientific and the other physical, a third enjoyment— that of a 
pleasant jaunt to the sea side— is added, then a man’s happi- 
ness may be said to be filled. 
Of course, it has been said quite frequently of late in the 
public prints, that Coney Island Is quite accessible to New 
York. Some 2,000,000 of people, who were formerly cooped 
up during the summer heats in those great cities which centre 
at the confluence of the North and East Rivers, have had 
opened to them a delightful resort, right on the Atlantic 
Ocean. Whereas your Londoner has to travel no end of miles 
to reach Brighton, your New Yorker, your Brooklynite, or 
Jersey City man, can now in an hour revel in the delights of 
a cool breeze and refresh himself in the tumbling billows 
of the ocean. The Manhattan Beach Railway is the latest 
system of locomotion which brings the world of New York 
to the sea side. In point of enterprise, the project of the 
Manhattan Beach R. R. by no means dwindles with the idea 
of being a narrow-gauge road, for, if the tracks are narrow, 
it has no less than three distinct connections with New York 
and the neighboring cities. Most, if not all, of this work, 
conceived on the largest plan, is due to D. C. Corbin, Esq., 
the active Manager and Director of the Manhattan Beach 
Railroad. Administrative powers, so far as railroad men are 
concerned, are sorely taxed when the problem to be solved is 
to take up an enormous number of passengers in the shortest 
conceivable time, and to land them, and^then to swoop them 
all up again and to put them back again where they came 
from. The Manhattan Beach R. R. is prepared to accomplish 
Ihe fe.it of collecting some 20,000 odd people, of landing them 
ul their hotel on the beach, and of taking them back again 
to New York without accident or delay, all within the limit of 
some six to eight hours. 
On Wednesday last, at the invitation of the Manhattan 
Beach Railroad, a large company of gentlemen, representing 
the New York and Brooklyn Press, passed, by steamboat and 
railroad, to the superb hotel on the beach, owned by the com- 
pany. A very superb dinner was provided by the proprietors, 
Messrs. Keefer & Co. Now, there are dinners and dinners, 
and we may as well state that your representative of the press 
is mostly a dainty individual, and appreciative withal. We 
have no hesitation in saying that the dinner was superb— fully 
equal to any feast served at Delmonico’s in every way, and- 
the ability of the chef, Monsieur Auguste Conrad, was con- 
spicuous. To dine seventy-five people quite as well and 
quickly as if there were hut ten, is the acme of culinary skill. 
The very notable event iu the dinner was the presence of 
white-bait, furnished, for the first time in the United States, 
by Mr. E. G. Blackford. In the Forest and Stream and 
Rod and Gon, in a former issue, we gave full particulars in 
regard to this potable fish. 
Ictbyologicaily, we are quite well satisfied that it is the 
young of some species of the herring; gastronomically, we 
must affirm that whitebait is a most dainty fish. Of course, 
we feel in no way bound to quarrel with any one who would 
assert that a square meal of codfish balls wa9 better than a 
dainty fry of whitebait. The only thing we would insist upon 
iB this, that in some of the accounts given in the public prints 
of this dinner the authenticity of the fish themselves was dis- 
puted. Who could expect a poor ordinary reporter to feel the 
solemnity of the occasion, when first the realm of whitebait 
was opened before him ? Such a man would joke about the 
equator. Bona fide whitebait were they, however, upon as 
good authority as that which can be furnished by the Smith- 
sonian Institution. Delicately fried (Mies Corson having 
solved the method of serving them), we may now bid defiance 
to Greenwich, and the many famous whitebait houses there. 
The dinner was a delightful one, the excellent fare being sup- 
plemented by the numerous clever speeches made by the gen- 
. tlemen present. When pleasant talk was subdued for a 
FRANK FORESTER. 
IN MEMORIAM. 
T WENTY-FIVE or thirty years ago, when the flats around 
Chatham and Pine Brook swarmed with Bnipe, and the 
Warwick woodlands of Orange County were invaded by a 
sabaoth of Bob Whites and timber doodles, “Frank Forester" 
might have been encountered in the gray dawn pacing rapidly 
over the du9ty Newark road, en route for the Jersey meadows," 
or the rattling of the long, boxed shooting wagon have 
awakened the drowsy tavern-keeper for the sparkling eau de 
tie, as old “Herbert," in company with some devoted friend, 
drove toward the gem in the mountains (Long Pond) or 
sought the hospitable log ranche of Tom Ward (old fat Tom 
Draw) within the quiet solitudes of Warwick, New York. 
But for twenty years his mortal remains have slumbered 
quietly within the environs of Mount Pleasant Cemetery, near 
Belleville, and the balmy breezes of the tranquil spring have 
sung their appropriate lullabys and bedecked the little grassy 
hillock with the daisy, and the 9weel violet and the departing 
woodland year has also contributed her sympathies with 
murmuring sigh9 and weird lamentations. There remains 
not a vestige of the little Mary Tudor cottage, “The Cedars," 
at one time half- ed among the towering foliage on the 
banks of the Pas aic, where the gifted author and great 
sportsman, in a sort of English hospitality, would entertain 
his friends of the rod and rifle, or pen from the historic annals 
of tradition such masterpieces as King Henry the VIII., 
“Captains of the Old World,” etc. 
Iu glancing over his sporting works, I i magine the peculiar 
odor from the stagnant sedgos at Montauk, the familiar drafts 
from The Cedars ; nay, I thought I heard but a moment ago 
Bob White’s cheery whistle as he broke his fast in yonder 
stubble, and the spirited whir-r-r of the fat autumnal wood- 
cock as he sprang from the brake just beyond the brook on 
the verge of the meadow. To the devoted student of nature, 
such as was the lamented “Frank Forester,” the budding 
spring time ha9 many strange fascinations. That glorious 
season of the fleeting year, when the warbler carols forth his 
tuneful praise to his Creator for the pleasant sunshine, filling 
the woodland far and wide with his thrilling music, and glad- 
dening the heart of all mankind. There is something, too, in 
the “melancholy" days of the golden autumn, when the 
songster from the forest seeks again his home in sunnier 
climes, when the floweret which lately bloomed by the way- 
side blooms no more, and perhaps with the falling leaf there 
flashes through the mind the remembrance of some bright, 
familiar face who but a year ago departed with the choicest 
flower from the hillside. But, gentle reader, it required the 
inspired Herbert to picture forth nature’s attractions, and it 
would appear that from him she hid nothing. How feelingly 
does he describe the tranquil decline of the woodland year to 
the extreme beauty of the ill-fated consumptive. It will bear 
many readings before the sportsman tires of its repetition : 
“It leads to death, indeed, but it seems to mo father to 
resemble the tranquil close of a well spent life, beautiful by 
the consciousness of good deeds done during the heat 
of youth and in the heyday of manhood, and enriched 
by the hope of glories to shine forth after the winter of 
the grave, than the termination of an existence to be 
dreaded or deplored." When the Indian summer, with its 
mellow hues and balmy, almost breathless atmosphere, had 
inspired the overtaxed intellect of our departed friend, he was 
eager to penetrate the wilds of nature along some craggy 
cavern in the wood or the upland, or in the stubble, and, in a 
word, wherever nature’s smiling beauties enticed his willing 
step, there would he wander with his faithful spaniel “to 
heel," surprising some foolish “quack" sailing lazily up and 
down the creek, or cutting down a “brace” in the open by his 
very frequent accomplishment— a “ truly cool, quick, double 
shot.” 
But “Old Herbert” has departed from the brakes and 
marshes these twenty long years, leaving Miss Quailina to 
canvass the buckwheat stubble ad libitum. Mr. Editor, it be- 
