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Spencer Fullerton Baird

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Spencer Fullerton Baird was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator. Baird was the first curator to be named at the Smithsonian Institution. He eventually served as assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1850 to 1878, and as Secretary from 1878 until 1887. He was dedicated to expanding the natural history collections of the Smithsonian which he increased from 6,000 specimens in 1850 to over 2 million by the time of his death. He published over 1,000 works during his lifetime.

Books

The Water Birds of North America
The Water Birds of North America
Robert Ridgway, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Thomas Mayo Brewer
The Water Birds of North America
The Water Birds of North America
Robert Ridgway, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Thomas Mayo Brewer
A History of North American Birds
A History of North American Birds
Robert Ridgway, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Thomas Mayo Brewer
The Birds of North America
The Birds of North America
Spencer Fullerton Baird, George Newbold Lawrence
Review of American Birds
Review of American Birds
Spencer Fullerton Baird
Review of American Birds
Review of American Birds
Smithsonian Institution, Spencer Fullerton Baird
Review of American Birds, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution
Review of American Birds, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution
Spencer Fullerton Baird
A History of North American Birds
A History of North American Birds
Robert Ridgway, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Thomas Mayo Brewer
Review of American Birds
Review of American Birds
Spencer Fullerton Baird
The Water Birds of North America
The Water Birds of North America
Robert Ridgway, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Thomas Mayo Brewer
List of Marine Invertebrates from the New England Coast Distributed by the United States National Museum
List of Marine Invertebrates from the New England Coast Distributed by the United States National Museum
David Starr Jordan, Ernest Ingersoll, William Healey Dall, Leonhard Stejneger, Robert Ridgway, United States National Museum, Charles Abiathar White, Spencer Fullerton Baird, George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill, Frederick William True, Robert Wilson Shufeldt, Tarleton Hoffman Bean, Charles Henry Gilbert, Rosa Smith Eigenmann, Frederick Miller Endlich, William Gilson Farlow, Charles Rau, S. H. Johnson, George Newbold Lawrence, Richard Rathburn, Anthony Pirz, C. H. Boyd, Charles L. McKay, Félix Auguste Joseph Plateau, George Wesson Hawes, Joseph Yates Porter, M. A. Moore, Otto Luggar, Pierre Louis Jouy, Silas B. Smith, W. C. W. Glazier, William E. Carlin, William N. Lockington
Check List of Publications of the Smithsonian Institution, July, 1872
Check List of Publications of the Smithsonian Institution, July, 1872
Smithsonian Institution, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Theodore Gill, Philip Pearsall Carpenter, Joseph Henry
The Water Birds of North America
The Water Birds of North America
Robert Ridgway, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Thomas Mayo Brewer
Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey
Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey
James Hall, United States. Department of the Interior, Timothy Abbott Conrad, Spencer Fullerton Baird, William Hemsley Emory, George Engelmann, John Torrey, Arthur Schott, Charles Girard
A History of North American Birds
A History of North American Birds
Robert Ridgway, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Thomas Mayo Brewer
A History of North American Birds
A History of North American Birds
Robert Ridgway, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Thomas Mayo Brewer

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