Spencer F. Baird: World-Famous Naturalist,

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Summary

Opens 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.

Subject

  • Baird, Mary Helen Churchill
  • Baird, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887
  • Dickinson College
  • United States Fish Commission
  • United States National Museum
  • Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian

Notes

The Boyd Lee Spahr lectures in Americana, 1951-56, Dickinson College

Contained within

John and Mary's College (Book)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, [email protected]

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Date

1956

Topic

  • Animals
  • Natural History
  • Secretaries
  • Collectors and collecting
  • Ichthyology
  • Birds
  • Biography
  • Natural history
  • Ornithology

Physical description

pp. 212-23

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