Spencer F. Baird: World-Famous Naturalist
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PrintOpens with a discussion of Herber's interest in Spencer Fullerton Baird. Summarizes Baird's youth, family, education especially at Dickinson College, marriage to Mary Churchill, appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian in 1850, collecting networks, and role in establishing the United States National Museum and United States Fish Commission.
Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography
The Boyd Lee Spahr lectures in Americana, 1951-56, Dickinson College
John and Mary's College (Book)
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1956
pp. 212-23