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Spencer Fullerton Baird papers. 1868-1873. Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887) was a Dickinson College graduate (class of 1840) and a professor of natural history and science at the college from 1845 until 1850, when he became assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institute (1850-1878). He was later promoted to secretary of that...
Sep 3, 2023 · 234 taxon names authored by Spencer Fullerton Baird; Eponyms (List may be incomplete) 14 eponyms of Spencer Fullerton Baird; Publications [edit] (List may be incomplete) 1843 [edit] Baird, W.M. & Baird, S.F. 1843. Descriptions of two Species, supposed to be new, of the Genus Tyrannula Swainson, found in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Spencer Fullerton Baird was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on February 3, 1823 to Samuel Baird and Lydia McFunn Biddle, the third of seven children. The family relocated to Carlisle, Pennsylvania following the death of Baird's father from cholera in 1833. Baird entered Dickinson College as a freshman in 1837, receiving his A.B. degree in 1840.
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Baird, Spencer Fullerton zoology, scientific administration. Baird’s father was Samuel Baird, a lawyer of local prominence; his mother was the former… Herpetology, HERPETOLOGY. Contributions to the study of American reptiles prior to 1800 were made primarily by European travelers. Notable among the earliest cont…
In 1850 he hired a natural history curator, Spencer Fullerton Baird, who arrived at the Smithsonian with two railroad cars of natural history specimens and a dream that he would someday be the director of a great national museum. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1823, Baird was a naturalist and inveterate collector.
Jun 8, 2018 · Baird, Spencer Fullerton(b. Reading, Pennsylvania, 3 February 1823; d. Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 19 August 1887)zoology, scientific administration.Baird’s father was Samuel Baird, a lawyer of local prominence; his mother was the former Lydia MacFunn Biddle of Philadelphia.
At age 17, Spencer Fullerton Baird wrote America’s leading ornithologist, John James Audubon. Though Baird had begun collecting birds and other natural specimens around his home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania when he was only eight, he asked Audubon for advice on two undocumented flycatchers, writing: “I am but a boy and very inexperienced.”.