Spencer Fullerton Baird
1823–87
American zoologist and scientific administrator. Professor of natural history, Dickinson College, 1846. Assistant secretary and curator of the Smithsonian Institution, 1850; secretary, 1878–87. Science editor for Harper’s Weekly, 1871–9.
Source
ANB.
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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