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A biography of Spencer Fullerton Baird has been written by

Dr. W. H. Dall (J. B. Lippincott Co., 15s. net). Baird was a, well-known American biologist, who died in 1887, after having been Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington for many years. His special interests lay in the study of fishes, and he was the organizer and first Com- missioner of the United States Commission on Fish and Fisheries.