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	Spencer Fullerton Baird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spencer Fullerton Baird (February 3, 1823 – August 19, 1887) was an American ornithologist and ichthyologist.
		After studying medicine for a time, Baird became professor of natural history in Dickinson College in 1845, assuming also the duties of the chair of chemistry, and giving instruction in physiology and mathematics.
		Baird's Sandpiper was named after Spencer Fullerton Baird.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spencer_Fullerton_Baird (425 words)

	Marine Fisheries Review: Spencer Fullerton Baird and the foundation of A... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Spencer Baird was one of America's preeminent systematic zoologists in the mid-19th century.
		Baird did continue to recommend that states enact laws to protect the spawning process, restrict the taking of undersized fish, halt pollution, and build fishways on major rivers that would allow anadromous fish to reach their spawning grounds.
		Baird may have helped to maintain their runs on some rivers along the east coast, but the effort to establish the shad in the Gulf Coast and Mississippi Valley regions was an outright failure.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:9102691&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (4898 words)

	Baird Biographies - USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Baird gave more attention to his farm than his profession and was not therefore a very profound lawyer, but he was an attractive speaker and a popular man. He was elected a Representative from this county in 1836, and Senator in 1837, which office he held until he died in 1842.
		Baird was given the part of assistant chief clerk of the Census Bureau and was later honored by an appointment as clerk in the Department proper.
		Baird are the parents of two children, viz.: Frank E., an attorney at Charleroi, this county, and Maria Louise, wife of A. Mitchell, assistant engineer of the Monongahela division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with residence in Monongahela City.
	www.bairdnet.com /biography/s-t.html (2990 words)

	HENRY MARTYN BAIRD - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY MARTYN BAIRD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		(1832-1906), American historian and educationalist, a son of Robert Baird (1798-1863), a Presbyterian preacher and author who worked earnestly both in the United States and in Europe for the cause of temperance, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 17th of January 1832.
		BAIRD, JAMES (1802-1876) Scottish iron-master, was bornat Kirkwood, Lanarkshire, on the 5th of December 1802, the son of a coal-master.
		In this year the father retired, the firm of William Baird and Co. was organized, and James Baird assumed active control.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BAIRD_HENRY_MARTYN.htm (863 words)

	Marine Fisheries Review: Biographical sketch of Spencer Fullerton Baird.... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Spencer Fullerton Baird, who lived from 1823 to 1887, was a student of natural history who became secretary of the US Fish and Fisheries Commission in 1871 and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1878.
		Spencer F. Baird, an appropriate tribute and recognition of the distinguished labors in behalf of fisheries and biological science.
		Professor Baird's public life began at a time when the scientific bureaus of the government, which have grown and multiplied with such rapidity in our day, and have become so prominent, and complicated, and important, were in the air, although they had, as yet, hardly begun their existence in tangible form.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:18916124&refid=holomed_1 (7881 words)

	NOAA History - Profiles in Time/Giants of Science/Spencer Fullerton Baird
		His father, Samuel Baird (1786-1833), was a lawyer, a man of fine culture, an independent and original thinker, and a lover of nature and of outdoor sports.
		Samuel Baird's father, Thomas Baird, was of Scotch-Irish origin; he came to the colony before the middle of the century, and following the current of westward travel, settled as a frontiersman in the beautiful Cumberland Valley, near the present site of Chambersburg, the westernmost of the Pennsylvania settlements, and at the very verge of civilization.
		Professor Baird's mother's father, William McFunn Biddle, was the son of William McFunn, an officer of the British Navy, who was present with the fleet at the siege of Quebec, and while stationed on the Delaware was married, in 1752, to Lydia Biddle.
	www.history.noaa.gov /giants/baird.html (2608 words)

	Spencer Fullerton Baird
		Spencer Fullerton Baird was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on February 3, 1823 to Samuel Baird and Lydia McFunn Biddle, the third of seven children.
		Baird was offered a teaching position at Dickinson College in 1845 as professor of natural history, and became popular among the students for his practice of taking the young men out into the field to study the natural world.
		Baird was able to develop a career as an authority on natural history.
	chronicles.dickinson.edu /encyclo/b/ed_bairdSF.html (475 words)

	Spencer Fullerton Baird Collection, American Philosophical Society
		Baird used this period, too, to further his contacts in the field, arranging meetings with Louis Agassiz, Asa Gray, John Cassin, and Thomas M. Brewer, and working for James Dwight Dana in identifying the crustacean collected on the Charles Wilkes expedition.
		A Biddle on his mother's side, Baird had married the daughter of the Inspector General of the Army, which gave his a perfect entree to the military, enabling him to solicit specimens from officers stationed in the west, but more importantly to attach naturalists to Army exploring expeditions.
		Baird was elected to the APS in 1855.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/b/baird.htm (848 words)

	Baird as Assistant Secretary
		Baird was a diligent correspondent; he wrote an average of 3,500 letters a year and established correspondence with interested individuals across the continent.
		Baird juggled funds to support them financially, allowed them to live in the towers and basement of the Castle, when they were not out on exploring expeditions, and used them to acquire collections and disseminate more research than he could produce on his own.
		Baird ensured that naturalists accompanied the government exploring expeditions to the western part of the continent and that their collections came to the Smithsonian.
	www.si.edu /archives/ihd/baird/bairdc.htm (1146 words)

	Sublime Pack Rat
		Spencer Fullerton Baird, only 27 when appointed Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was the antithesis of the man who hired him.
		Baird enjoyed easy access to those with social and political influence; the Victorian precepts of the era, the attentions of a reigning matriarch -- his grandmother -- and the male distractions afforded by small-town America, including hunting and fishing, encouraged his inquisitiveness.
		Baird's wife was the daughter of the Inspector General of the U.S. Army, a vital contributor to scientific research in the American West.
	www.150.si.edu /chap2/rat.htm (641 words)

	A Century of Fish Conservation (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service History)
		Spencer Fullerton Baird, a former college professor from Pennsylvania and at that time, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was a logical choice to head the newly created agency and Grant apparently had few reservations when he chose him for the job.
		Baird was not only a naturalist of considerable reputation but a qualified scientist in the broad sense and represented the beginnings of a new trend toward professionalism in American science.
		When Baird took office in 1871, the artificial propagation of trout and other fishes was in its infancy but had already captured the imagination of a growing population intent on improving the stocks of available sport and food fish.
	training.fws.gov /history/fisherieshistory.html (1957 words)

	Record Unit 7002 - Spencer F. Baird Papers, 1833-1889
		Baird's main scientific work was in ornithology, herpetology, and ichthyology, and several of his publications remained definitive works for decades.
		Spencer F. Baird served as Permanent Secretary of the AAAS from 1852 to 1854.
		Baird's duties as Permanent Secretary were to attend the AAAS meetings and to write and publish the semi-annual reports.
	siarchives.si.edu /findingaids/faru7002.htm (2536 words)

	baird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Baird was a pioneer in the use of field trips for his students as part of a scientific education.
		In 1850, at the age of 27, Baird was appointed to a post as Assistant Secretary at the recently formed Smithsonian Institution.
		Baird became one of the first naturalists in America to argue for the careful study of the already vanishing natural landscape of the United States.
	www.dickinson.edu /~nicholsa/Romnat/baird.htm (430 words)

	ESPN.com - Creation of the fisheries program
		Baird was a highly regarded scientist, mentioned in the same breath as names more well-known.
		Toward these ends, Baird worked in partnership with fish commissioners from the respective states; Baird advocated state involvement in fisheries and the proliferation of state fish commissions (future state DNRs) during his tenure stand as evidence.
		Spencer Fullerton Baird, appointed as the first commissioner of the U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries by President Grant.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1998203&type=story (705 words)

	Centennial 1876
		Baird was careful to distinguish between the Smithsonian's publications, international exchanges, meteorological observations, and expeditions, on the one hand, and, on the other, the possessions of the National Museum, which would clearly predominate in Philadelphia.
		Baird had sent out directives to obtain "objects illustrating the habits, customs, peculiarities and general condition of the various tribes, and also...such relics of their predecessors as may be procurable." Among those who received them were John Wesley Powell and James G. Swann, who brought back a formidable collection from Alaska.
		Baird spent most of his summer in philadelphia serving on judging panels and committees and working behind the scenes to obtain the exhibits he wanted for the Smithsonian.
	www.150.si.edu /chap4/four.htm (2782 words)

	Smithsonian Perspectives - Knowledge is best advanced not by research or collections or education, but by a careful ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He died in 1878 and was succeeded as Secretary by his "assistant in the department of natural history," Spencer Fullerton Baird.
		Baird, the quintessential museum man, was a distinguished scholar in natural history, and his publications list of what were mostly taxonomic studies fills an entire volume.
		Joseph Henry's death and Spencer Baird's succession to the secretaryship marked the end of all restraints on the development of the collections and the accompanying museums to house them.
	www.smithsonianmag.si.edu /smithsonian/issues96/mar96/heyman_mar96.html (859 words)

	Baird Family Portraits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Daughter of Alexander and Nellie Baird, was born at Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, Feb. 5th 1845 and married Samuel Booth on Dec 1st, 1865, and moved to Kansas in 1886, she died July 23, 1937 at the age of 92 years.
		Lucy Baird born 1848 to Spencer Fullerton Baird and Mary Helen Churchill, helped transcribe some of her father's work, and went with him on many field trips, she died 1913.
		Sophia Baird, born around the 1850's, married Nathan Baird and their daughter was Flo Baird Gleason born in 1879 and grew up in Massachusetts.
	www.bairdnet.com /portraits/portraits4.html (374 words)

	NOAA History - Profiles in Time/Giants of Science/Spencer Fullerton Baird
		In the field of herpetology Professor Baird was still more of a pioneer, and, with the exception of Cope, to whom he resigned the field in 1859, as his chosen successor, his formal memoirs in this department were more extensive than those of any other.
		When he comes to discuss migrations, it is their relations to the laws of the winds of the Northern Hemisphere that he studies them, and concludes that the transfer of American birds to Europe is maninly due to air currents.
		Professor Baird's career as an original investigator was hampered and finally stopped by his administrative work, but in proportion as this latter increased he was able to furnish materials and opportunities for others.
	www.history.noaa.gov /giants/baird2.html (2383 words)

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		This study of Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887), American natural historian and museum administrator, was originally completed as a doctoral dissertation at George Washington University in 1967.
		Allard's work describes Baird's very considerable contributions to American natural science in the mid and late 19th century with emphasis on his establishment and work with the U. Fish Commission.
		Baird was Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian institution and Director of the newly established United States National Museum from 1850 until 1878.
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	FaunaClassifieds Forums - Baird's common name!
		I wonder would Spencer Fullerton Baird, for whom I believe this snake was named appreciate any belittlement of his accomplishments by someone changing the common name for this species.
		It is called Baird's Rat Snake because it was named for and in honor of Baird, thus the specific name of bairdi in the scientific name.
		Baird's accomplishments; so maybe he in some small measure deserved to have this snake named after him, and maybe he is still deserving of that honor (please note, in particular, his 1853 accomplishment below):
	www.faunaclassifieds.com /forums/showthread.php?t=34735 (534 words)

	A National Collection - 1 of 4
		Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887), an avid naturalist and collector, served as an assistant to Secretary Joseph Henry from 1850 to 1878.
		As Secretary, Baird wrote more than 3,600 letters a year to a far-flung network of collectors and taught a generation of naturalists how to prepare specimens for museum collections.
		As this cigar box cover shows, Secretary Baird and the National Museum were popular facets of U.S. culture by the end of the 19th century.
	www.sil.si.edu /Exhibitions/Smithson-to-Smithsonian/collection_01.html (262 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This sandpiper was named in honour of Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887), who was the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
		Baird’s sandpiper belongs to the group of small sandpipers known as ‘peeps’.
		The feeding style of Baird's sandpiper is somewhat different from that of other sandpipers.
	www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca /birds/speciesacc/Arctic/Arc_Birds/Scolopacidae/C_bairdii.htm (236 words)

	AllRefer.com - Spencer Fullerton Baird (Zoology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		While at the Smithsonian Institution (from 1850; as secretary from 1878) he supervised the building of a museum to house the collection of North American fauna that had been amassed under his guidance.
		Baird set up the Marine Biological Station at Woods Hole, Mass., organized the expeditions of the research ship Albatross, and initiated valuable studies on wildlife preservation.
		His books on birds inaugurated the so-called Baird school of ornithological description, emphasizing accurate observation of each individual.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Baird-Sp.html (251 words)

	Gregg's Reptile Basement - template (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Baird’s rat snakes may be one of the most intriguing snakes as far as the young baird’s color and pattern compared to their visual colors and stripes as adults.
		This bloodline is the result of Texas Baird’s rat snakes (no locality) that had gone to Germany and when they were bred the albino hatched from the clutch.
		A normal looking Texas Baird’s rat snake that carried this albino gene was purchased at a Florida show by Bill Corwin and through many years of back breeding, the pet trade is beginning to obtain albinos and heterozygous offspring.
	www.greggsrb.com /bairdi-article.htm (1145 words)

	Ornithology Collections in the Libraries at Cornell University: A Descriptive Guide
		Spencer Fullerton Baird [1823-1887] was a major figure in American ornithology.
		It was at Baird's insistence that the various governmental exploring expeditions, primarily concerned with geographical studies, included zoological components.
		Baird's many writings, thoroughly covered in the collections of the Cornell libraries, culminated in 1874 and 1875 in the History of North American birds, written with the assistance of Thomas Brewer and Robert Ridgway.
	rmc.library.cornell.edu /ornithology/guide/hillguide19.htm (853 words)

	Smithsonian Marine Mammal Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1878 Baird became the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, a position he held until his death in 1887.
		Baird was an avid naturalist with a bent towards the marine environment.
		Baird also was implemental in the forming of the United States Fish Commission in 1871 and became the first director of that commission.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /vert/mammals/mmp.html (813 words)

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