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Baird, Spencer Fullerton

naturalist, was born Feb. 3, 1823, in Reading, Pa. He was a naturalist of prominence, who was from 1878 the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the translator and editor of the Iconographic Encyclopedia; co-author with J. Cassin of Birds of North America and Mammals of North America; editor Annual Record of Science and Industry from 1872-78. A History of North American Birds, written in collaboration with T. M. Brewer and R. Ridgway, is one of his most valuable works. He died Aug. 19, 1887, in Wood's Holl, Mass.