The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . may be mentioned The History of theWaldenses, Albigenses and Vaudois; The History ofTemperance Societies; and The Religion of died at Yonkers, New York, March 15, , Spencer Fullerton, an Americannaturalist; born Feb. 3, 1823, at Reading, Penn-sylvania; graduated atDickinson College, Penn-sylvania; where for 10years he taught naturalhistory. His first liter-ary work of importancewas a translation and re-vision of the IconographicEnc\clopcedia. His writ-ings on natural historywere numerou
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . may be mentioned The History of theWaldenses, Albigenses and Vaudois; The History ofTemperance Societies; and The Religion of died at Yonkers, New York, March 15, , Spencer Fullerton, an Americannaturalist; born Feb. 3, 1823, at Reading, Penn-sylvania; graduated atDickinson College, Penn-sylvania; where for 10years he taught naturalhistory. His first liter-ary work of importancewas a translation and re-vision of the IconographicEnc\clopcedia. His writ-ings on natural historywere numerous and valu-able. Among his bestare A Catalogue of NorthAmerican Serpents; Mam-mals of North America.,and a Review of North American Birds. He wasassistant secretary for 28 years under JosephHenry (whom, in 1878, he succeeded) of the Smith-sonian Institution. He was the organizer and firstchief of the United States Commission of Fishand Fisheries. He was the recipient of manyhonors and medals from foreign societies andgovernments. He died at Woods Holl, Massa-chusetts, Aug. 19, SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD. BAKALAHARI, a Bechuana tribe of Africa,inhabiting that portion of the Kalahari desertlying between the Orange River and Lake are partly civilized, and their occupationsare agriculture and goat-raising. BAKE, Jan, a distinguished classical scholar;born at Leyden, Sept. i, 1787; from 1S17 to 1857was professor of Greek and Roman literature inthe university there; died March 26, 1864. Heedited several classics, including works by Cicero,Longinus and others; was one of the editors ofBibliotheca Critica Nova. BAKEL, an African town defended by a strongfort, in the east of the French colony of Senegal,on the left bank of the Senegal River. Popula-tion, 2,600. BAKER, Abijah Richardson, an Americaneducator; born in Franklin, Mass., Aug. 30, 1805;educated at Amherst College; became a teacherin several Massachusetts towns; ordained a Con-gregationalist minister in Medford,
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