Forest and stream . omeauthorities translate it, Come off the roof, cully. Asused by the member of the party interviewed by theTimes reporter, it was evidently adopted as a polite wayof saying: Go to. Do you think we are giving this thingaway? Not much. It has cost us time and money todiscover this bonanza, and we dont propose to find some-body elses tin cans on the stumps when we get there. 82 FOREST AND STREAM. [Aug. 25, 1887. SPENCER F. BAIRD. AFTER an illness of many weeks Prof. Spencer , Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution andUnited States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, d
Forest and stream . omeauthorities translate it, Come off the roof, cully. Asused by the member of the party interviewed by theTimes reporter, it was evidently adopted as a polite wayof saying: Go to. Do you think we are giving this thingaway? Not much. It has cost us time and money todiscover this bonanza, and we dont propose to find some-body elses tin cans on the stumps when we get there. 82 FOREST AND STREAM. [Aug. 25, 1887. SPENCER F. BAIRD. AFTER an illness of many weeks Prof. Spencer , Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution andUnited States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, died atWoods Holl. Mass., last Friday, Aug. 19. He had goneto Woods Holl in June, much broken down iu health andBpirits, but there had subsequently been such improve-ment that his recovery was hoped for, and his death whenit did come was sudden and unexpected. Spencer Fullerton Baird was born in Reading, Pa., , 1823. He was of mixed Scotch, English and Germandescent; and the name Spencer came from an ancestor, a. {)reacher whose war sermons were so powerful in Revo-utionary times that the British Government put a priceon the sturdy patriots head. At an early age the boydisplayed those tastes for natural history which were to-direct the course of his life and in after years make himdistinguished among his contemporaries. When four-teen years old, with his brother William, he began acollection of the birds of Cumberland county, Pa., andthe materials then brought together afterward formedthe nucleus of the Smithsonian collection of birds. Thebrothers contributed notes to the Philadelphia Academyof Sciences, and so, his love of ornithology becomingknown, young Baird found a warm friend in Audubon,with whom he exchanged specimens and to whom hecontributed materials for the great naturalists from Dickinson College in 1840 at the age of17, he entered upon the study of medicine in New York,but interrupted his course, and in 1845 accepted the chairof Natural History
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