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Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1823-1887. The second Smithsonian Secretary, Spencer Fullerton Baird, served from 1878 to 1887. A naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, and renowned collector from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Baird dedicated his career to creating a strong US National Museum at the Smithsonian. Born in 1823 in Reading, Pennsylvania ...
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Spencer Fullerton Baird (/ ˈ b ɛər d /; February 3, 1823 – August 19, 1887) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator. Baird was the first curator to be named at the Smithsonian Institution .
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Subjects Of Study: bird. mammal. North America. Spencer Fullerton Baird (born Feb. 3, 1823, Reading, Pa., U.S.—died Aug. 19, 1887, Woods Hole, Mass.) was an American naturalist, vertebrate zoologist, and in his time the leading authority on North American birds and mammals.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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This authoritative biographical entry on Spencer Fullerton Baird, the second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, appears in Volume I of the first fourteen volumes of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
