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Spencer Fullerton Baird - Smithsonian Secretary, 1878-1887 ". . . a National Museum, of which (let me whisper it) I hope to be director." -Letter from Spencer Fullerton Baird to George Perkins Marsh, Smithsonian Regent, July 2, 1853 Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887), an avid naturalist and collector, served as an assistant to Secretary Joseph Henry from 1850 to 1878.
SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD. some skeletons and fossils. At that time the Institution had a few boxes of minerals and plants, which were of little importance. These collections of Professor Baird formed the nucleus of the present National Museum, which was at last definitely estahlished in 1857 by the formal transfer of the collection of the Wilks ...
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7002, Spencer Fullerton Baird Papers Access Restriction (1) Some items cannot be reproduced because of legibility and bindings; (2) record unit partially microfilmed. Historical Note Spencer Fullerton Baird, a zoologist and administrator, was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on February 3, 1823.
Mar 22, 2019 · Historical Note. Spencer Fullerton Baird, a zoologist and administrator, was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on February 3, 1823. After his father's death in 1833, Baird's family moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where other family members resided.
Works about Baird [ edit] "Spencer Fullerton Baird" in Popular Science Monthly, 68 ( January 1906) " Baird, Spencer Fullerton ," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905) " Baird, Spencer Fullerton ," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884) Some or all ...
Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887), an avid naturalist and collector, served as an assistant to Secretary Joseph Henry from 1850 to 1878. A pioneer in museum collecting and display, he was named the Institution's second Secretary upon Henry's death.
At only 27, the ornithologist Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887) was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, a precocious appointment that suited a precocious scientist. Born into a well to do family in Reading, Pa., and raised in Carlisle, Baird acquired an interest in natural history even prior to enrolling at Dickinson ...