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Audubon. After a portrait by George P. A. Healy, 1838. Photogravure |
Frontispiece |
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| "Beechgrove," William Garrett Johnson's plantation house near St.
Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, where Mrs. Audubon
lived and taught from 1827 to 1829 |
Facing 6 |
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John Bachman's house in Charleston, South Carolina |
Facing 6 |
| Early drawing in water color of the Carolina Parrot on branch of the
hickory, 1811, hitherto unpublished |
Facing 20 |
| John Bachman at thirty-two. After an engraving by Charles C. Wright
of a portrait by A. Fisher |
Facing 32 |
| Robert Havell at eighty-five. After a photograph taken shortly before
his death in 1878 |
Facing 32 |
| Letter of Dr. George Parkman to Audubon, May 25, 1833 |
43 |
| Pileated Woodpeckers on the "Raccoon Grape," The Birds of America,
Plate CXI. After the original engraving by Robert Havell, 1831.
Color |
Facing 46 |
| Letter of Robert Havell to Audubon, June 15, 1833 |
51 |
| John George Children |
Facing 64 |
| Edward Harris |
Facing 64 |
| John Bachman |
Facing 72 |
| George Ord |
Facing 72 |
| Samuel Latham Mitchell |
Facing 72 |
| Charles Waterton |
Facing 72 |
| Dr. Thomas Cooper, President of South Carolina College. After a contemporary
silhouette |
78 |
| Vindication of Audubon's representation of the fangs of the southern
rattlesnake as recurved at their tips. Detail from The Birds of
America, Plate XXI, and photograph of the skull of a recent
Florida specimen |
Facing 80 |
| Bluebirds on a stalk of the "great Mullein," The Birds of America,
Plate CXIII. After the original engraving by Robert Havell, 1831.
Color |
Facing 100
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| William Swainson |
Facing 118 |
| Thomas Nuttall |
Facing 118 |
| Charles Lucien Bonaparte |
Facing 118 |
| Constantine Samuel Rafinesque |
Facing 118 |
| Audubon. After an engraving by H. B. Hall of a portrait painted by
Henry Inman in 1833 |
Facing 126 |
| Letter of William MacGillivray to Audubon, October 22, 1834 |
Facing 131 |
| Part of the original draft of Audubon's manuscript for the Introduction
to Volume II of the Ornithological Biography, giving list of
names of persons to whom Audubon carried credentials on his first
visit to London in 1827 |
Facing 133 |
| Audubon's inscription in a copy of the Ornithological Biography, which
he presented to William MacGillivray in 1839 |
Facing 138 |
| Early drawings of American birds, 1807-12, hitherto unpublished: the
Whippoorwill and the American Robin, with details |
Facing 144 |
| Bust of Audubon by William Couper, in front and profile views. After
the original in the American Museum of Natural History, New
York |
Facing 160 |
| Life mask of Audubon, hitherto unpublished, in front and profile views.
After the original made by Robert Havell in London, now in possession
of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy of Harvard University |
Facing 178 |
| Canvas-backed Ducks, with distant view of the city of Baltimore, Maryland,
The Birds of America, Plate CCCI. After the original engraving
by Robert Havell, 1836. Color |
Facing 196 |
| Victor Gifford Audubon |
Facing 210 |
| John Woodhouse Audubon |
Facing 210 |
| Title page of the paper covers in which parts of the first American
(octavo) edition of The Birds of America were originally issued |
213 |
| Audubon. After a portrait painted by John Woodhouse and Victor
Gifford Audubon about 1841 |
Facing 226 |
| "Minnie's Land," Audubon's home on the Hudson River, as it appeared
in 1865. After a lithograph in Valentine's Manual |
Facing 236 |
| "Minnie's Land," as it appears to-day from the river front protected by
the retaining wall of Riverside Drive |
Facing 236 |
| Audubon, with gun, horse, and dog. After a painting by John Woodhouse
Audubon about 1841 |
Facing 244 |
| Letter of Edward Harris to Audubon, January 31, 1843 |
251
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| Drawings for The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America: the American
or Canada porcupine and rabbits. After the originals in water
color in the American Museum of Natural History, New York |
Facing 264 |
| Title page of Volume I of the English edition of the text of The Viviparous
Quadrupeds of North America |
275 |
| John W. Audubon's inscription in a copy of Volume I of the text of
the Quadrupeds (English edition), presented to John Edward Gray |
280 |
| Audubon. After an engraving by Nordheim of a daguerreotype possibly
earlier than 1849 |
Facing 280 |
| Audubon. After his last portrait, a daguerreotype made in New York
about 1850 |
Facing 280 |
| Letter of John Bachman to George Oates, November 7, 1846 |
282 |
| Audubon's last (?) letter to Edward Harris, February 22, 1847 |
287 |
| House formerly belonging to Victor Gifford Audubon, east front, as it
appears to-day |
Facing 294 |
| House formerly belonging to John Woodhouse Audubon, south front,
as it appears to-day |
Facing 294 |
| Lucy Bakewell Audubon. After a miniature painted by Frederick
Cruikshank in London, about 1831 |
Facing 304 |
| Lucy Bakewell Audubon. After an unpublished photograph of 1871 |
Facing 304 |
