=Baird, Robert.= _Pa._, 1798-1863. A Presbyterian clergyman, active in the cause of temperance and in promoting the extension of Protestantism in Europe. History of the Temperance Societies; View of Religion in America; History of the Waldenses, Albigenses, and Vaudois; Protestantism in Italy. _See Life, by H. M. Baird._ _Har._ =Baird, Samuel John.= _O._, 1817-1893. A Presbyterian clergyman whose writings are chiefly concerned with the polity and history of the Presbyterian church. The Church of Christ: its Constitution and Order; History of the Early Polity of the Presbyterian Church in the Training of Ministers; The Socinian Apostasy of the English Presbyterian Church; History of the New School. =Baird, Spencer Fullerton.= _Pa._, 1823-1887. A naturalist of prominence, who was from 1878 the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The translator and editor of the Iconographic Encyclopedia, co-author with J. Cassin of Birds of North America and Mammals of North America; editor Annual Record of Science and Industry from 1872-78. A History of North American Birds, written in collaboration with T. M. Brewer and R. Ridgway, is one of his most valuable works. _See Popular Science Monthly, vol. 33._ _Har. Lip. Lit._ =Baker, Abijah Richardson.= _Ms._, 1805-1876. A Congregational clergyman of Lynn, Massachusetts. School History of the United States; The Catechism Tested by the Bible; Topics in Christ’s Sermon on the Mount. =Baker, George Augustus.= _N. Y._, 1849- ----. A lawyer of New York. Point Lace and Diamonds, a collection of sparkling society verse; The Bad Habits of Good Society; Mrs. Hephaestus and Other Short Stories; West Point: a Comedy. _Sto._ =Baker, George Melville.= _Me._, 1832-1890. The author and compiler of Amateur Dramas, the Social Stage, and works of like character. _Le._ =Baker, George Pierce.= _R. I._, 1866- ----. An instructor at Harvard University. Plot Book of Elizabethan Plays; Principles of Argumentation. _Gi. Ho._ =Baker, Mrs. Harriette Newell [Woods].= “Madeline Leslie.” _Ms._, 1815-1893. Wife of A. R. Baker, _supra_, and daughter of Leonard Woods, _infra_. Beside two novels,--Cora and the Doctor, The Courtesies of Wedded Life,--her writings include nearly two hundred moral and religious tales, among which Tim the Scissors Grinder is the best known. =Baker, Mrs. Julia Keim [Wetherill].= _Mi._, 1858- ----. A journalist of New Orleans. Wings: a Novel.