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He died of cholera [2] when Baird was ten years old. [5] As a young boy he attended Nottingham Academy in Port Deposit, Maryland and public school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. [2] Baird attended Dickinson College and earned his bachelor's and master's degrees, finishing the former in 1840.
Baird earned his BA and MA degrees from Dickinson College and later worked as a professor at Dickinson. While teaching, Baird used his time wisely; in addition to prolific reading and daily collecting expeditions, he also traveled and met other naturalists with whom he then corresponded and established specimen exchanges.
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Spencer Fullerton Baird was an American naturalist, vertebrate zoologist, and in his time the leading authority on North American birds and mammals. A meeting in 1838 with John J. Audubon, who gave Baird part of his own collection of birds, turned the young naturalist’s interest to ornithology.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 17, 2021 · Spencer Fullerton Baird was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1823. Time spent as a child exploring the countryside with his brother fueled his passion for natural history. In 1838 he met John James Audubon , who gave him part of his bird collection, and encouraged young Baird’s interest in ornithology and collecting specimens.
Jun 8, 2018 · He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1864, over the opposition of Louis Agassiz, who had personal differences with Baird and also contended that, as a descriptive biologist, Baird contributed no new knowledge to science. In 1871 Congress established the U.S. Fish Commission under Baird’s direction.
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.
To date there are more than twelve species of fish, over twenty-five species of mammals, birds, and mollusks, and one entire genus named for Spencer Fullerton Baird. Baird’s collecting helped transform nineteenth-century American science by documenting America’s own natural history.
