Signed "Walton Hall, Jany. 1, 1833." A caustic reply to the last. Reprinted in Essays in Natural History, chiefly Ornithology, First Series. London, 1838.
"Remarks on Mr. Audubon's Account of the 'Habits of the Turkey Buzzard (Vultur Aura), particularly with the View of exploding the Opinion generally entertained of its extraordinary Powers of Smelling,'" Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, vol. vi, pp. 163-171. London, 1833.
A characteristically flippant article, ending thus: "But here I will stop: I have been too long on carrion,—'neque enim toluare vaporem ulterius potui' (Ovid Met., ii, 301)."
"The Gland on the Rump of Birds," Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, vol. vi, pp. 274-277. London, 1833.
Denial that birds ever oil their feathers in preening, as Audubon had maintained for the eagle. Reprinted, with many controversial articles, which follow, in Essays on Natural History, First Series, referred to above.
"[Mr. Audubon, Jr.] in Reply to Mr. Waterton's Remarks on Audubon's Biography of Birds," Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, vol. vi, p. 369. London, 1833.
Signed "121 Great Portland St., Jn. 7, 1833." Victor Audubon's defense of his father, who was then in America.
"Observations on Mr. Waterton's Attacks on Mr. Audubon," Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, vol. vi, pp. 369-372. London, 1833.
Signed "Hampstead, Jn. 10, 1833."
[Mr. Waterton in reply to Mr. Audubon, Jun.], Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, vol. vi, pp. 464-465. London, 1833.
Signed "Walton Hall, July 6, 1833"; Refers to Dr. Jones' "Romance of the Rattlesnake" (see No. 93), and quotes a letter by George Ord, in explaining why Swainson did not write the "Biography of Birds."
"Mr. Audubon again," Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, vol. vi, pp. 465-468. London, 1833.
A reply to Robert Bakewell, in which the author says that his only object in attacking Audubon was to defend his own account of the vulture.
"Mr. Audubon, and his Work, the 'Biography of Birds': Mr. Swainson in reply to Mr. Waterton," Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, vol. vi, p. 550. London, 1833.
"Mr. Audubon, and his Work, the 'Biography of Birds': Mr. Audubon, jun., in Reply to Mr. Waterton," Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, vol. vi, pp. 550-553. London, 1833.
Signed "121 Great Portland, Sept. 19, 1833." Quotes articles by Jones, Featherstonhaugh and Abert; see Nos. 93, 101, 106 and 107.
"Retrospective Criticism," embracing the following minor articles: "Mr. Audubon, and his Work, the Biography of Birds" (signed "Walton Hall, Nov. 7, 1833); "Mr. Audubon, jun."; "Aerial Encounter of the Eagle and the Vulture" (see the "Biography of Birds," vol. i, p. 163) (signed "Walton Hall, Nov. 7, 1833"); "Audubon's Humming-bird" (see the "Biography of Birds," vol. i, p. 248) ("Walton Hall, Nov. 19, 1833"); "The Virginian Partridge," Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, vol. vii, pp. 66-74. London, 1834.
The three last reprinted in Essays on Natural History, First Series, referred to above.
"Retrospective Criticism," embracing the following minor articles: "The Vulture's Nose" ("Walton Hall, March 6, 1834"); "Audubon's Claim to the Authorship of the Biography of Birds"; "Audubon and his Ornithology"; "The Passenger Pigeon" ("Walton Hall, Jany. 19, 1834"). Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, vol. vii, pp. 276-283. London, 1834.
The first and last articles reprinted in Essays on Natural History, First Series, referred to above.
"The Birds of America. No. XXXVII. By J. J. Audubon, Esq. Coloured Plates. Elephant folio. London, Havell," Athenæum, vol. for 1834, p. 350 (May 10). London, 1834.
At the same time was also reviewed Part ii of A Manual of the Ornithology of the United States, by Thomas Nuttall.
"The Birds of America. By J. J. Audubon, F.R.S., F.L.S. Parts XLI, XLII, XLIII. London, Havell," Athenæum, vol. for 1834, pp. 653-654. London, 1834.
Describes the Wood Duck (Plate ccvi) as perfect, and compliments the engraver, Robert Havell, on "the accuracy with which he has appreciated and retained the spirit of the originals."
"American Ornithology," The Western Monthly Magazine, vol. ii, pp. 337-350 (July). Cincinnati, 1834.
A comparative review of the ornithological works of Alexander Wilson, Thomas Nuttall, and John James Audubon, very laudatory of the first two but condemnatory of the last, by Judge Hall, whose brother, Harrison Hall, was an interested publisher of Wilson's work. "How shall we venture to dissent from the almost unanimous expression of public sentiment, which has set him [Audubon] up as a sort of 'greatest and best,' against whom to speak in dispraise, would be a species of treason. Yet it must be done, and it is our vocation to do it: the critic must not be silent when the interests of science require, and the honor of his country demands, that he should proclaim the truth.... The exaggerations contained in these sketches ["Episodes"] are such as to weaken our confidence in the entire work."
"Retrospective Criticism. Remarks in defence of the Author of the Birds of America," Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, vol. vii, pp. 164-175. London, 1834.
A reply to Waterton, and an appeal for as much justice for Audubon as was shown to Wilson, his predecessor. Dated "Charleston, Dec. 31, 1833."
"An account of some experiments made on the habits of the Vultures inhabiting Carolina,—the Turkey Buzzard and the Carrion Crow, particularly as it regards the extraordinary powers of smelling usually attributed to them," Journal of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. i, pp. 15-31. Boston, 1834.
Bachman did not deny the power of smell to the vultures, but maintained that they were guided to their prey by sight alone.
"Audubon's Birds of America and Ornithological Biography," Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, January, 1835.
"All is life, health, and beauty. Never before were birds so represented, and if ever again they will be, still Audubon will be the chief of a school, of whom it will be said that it studied nature. Turn now to any volume of plates that you can find, and what presents itself? not a bird surely, but an effigy stuffed with straw, and more worthy of being burnt, than that of a Tory statesman by a radical mob."
"Defence of Audubon," Bucks County Intelligencer, 1835.
Not seen.
"Ornithological Biography ... Volume ii, published at 25s.," Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, vol. viii, pp. 184-190. London, 1835.
"On the Geology and Natural History of the North-Eastern Extremity of the Alleghany Mountain Range, in Pennsylvania, United States," Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, vol. viii, pp. 529-541. London, 1835.
Confirms Audubon's account of the climbing habits of the rattlesnake.
130. (Anon.) Peabody, W. B. O.:
"Audubon's Biography of Birds; Ornithological Biography," North American Review, vol. xli, pp. 194-231. Boston, 1835.
131. Christopher North (John Wilson):
"Audubon's Ornithological Biography," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 37, pp. 107-124. Edinburgh, 1835.
"On Snakes, their Fangs, and their Mode of procuring Food," Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, vol. viii, pp. 663-668. London, 1835.
Reprinted in Essays on Natural History, First Series, referred to above.
133. Waterton, Charles, Esquire, of Walton-Hall:
"A Letter to James [Robert] Jameson, Esq." [followed by 21 lines of fine print, giving titles and membership in scientific societies]. Pp. 1-14. Wakefield, 1835.
Privately printed, and designed mainly to hit Audubon and his snake stories over Jameson's shoulders. Signed, "Walton-Hall, January 27, 1835." "Should you honor me—— with a reply, I promise you that I will take an immediate and dispassionate notice of it; and I will address to you a second, a third, and a fourth letter, and so on. As you have first attacked me through Audubon, through him I will continue to point my dart at you.... This mode of carrying on the warfare will answer well my ends. It will give me an opportunity of again bringing on the stage certain individuals with whom I have not yet quite squared up accounts; and, at the same time, I trust it will be to you a kind ... of hint, a warning—lest you make another false step in your exertions to sound again in the public ear, O Candour! whither art thou fled? Certainly not to Walton Hall.... Pray, sir, where were your brains (whither had they fled? Certainly not to Walton Hall) when you received, and approved of, a narrative at once so preposterous and so palpably fictitious?" Reprinted in Essays on Natural History, edited by Norman Moore (London, 1871). Citation from pamphlet in Library of British Museum.
134. Waterton, Charles, Esquire, of Walton-Hall:
"Second Letter to Robert Jameson, Esq." [with same titles as in last]. Pp. 1-16. Wakefield, 1835.
Ridicules in particular Audubon's accounts of the Vulture, the Passenger Pigeon, and a hurricane in North America. Signed "Walton-Hall. March 2nd, 1835."
"Audubon's Plates of the Birds of America," Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, vol. viii, pp. 236-238. London, 1835.
Accuses Audubon of misrepresentation in his statements of the time required to produce his drawings.
"Ornithological Biography, or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America ... By J. J. Audubon. vol. ii &c. First Notice," Athenæum, London, January 3, 1835, pp. 5-7.
The same: "Second Notice," Athenæum, January 17, pp. 43-45.
The same: "Third Notice," Athenæum, January 31, pp. 87-89.
"There is amply sufficient remaining in Audubon's pages, for fully a dozen more notices, were we disposed to follow the exhausting system."
"Ornithological Biography ... vol. iii, First Notice," Athenæum, pp. 41-42, January 16, 1836. London.
The same: "Second Notice," Athenæum, January 23, 1836, pp. 62-63.
138. Waterton, Charles, Esq., Walton-Hall:
"An Ornithological Letter to William Swainson, Esq., F.R.S. &c. &c." Pp. 1-16. Wakefield (Richard Nichols, Bookseller), 1837.
Signed "Walton-Hall, March 10, 1837," and reprinted in Moore's edition of Essays on Natural History, referred to above. A long and bitter tirade against both Swainson and Audubon. "You have seen fit to laud one man exceedingly, for his zoological acquirements, who to my certain knowledge, paid other people for the letterpress and drawings, which were to appear in his work." Citation from pamphlet in British Museum Library.
"Ornithological Biography ... by John James Audubon. vols. i-iii," Oken's Isis, Bd. xxx, pp. 922-928. Leipzig, 1837.
"On the Habits of the Vultur aura, with notes on the dissections of the two heads of two specimens by R. Owen," Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Pt. v, pp. 33-35. London, 1837.
Favors the view that the vulture is guided to food by the sense of smell.
"Ornithological Biography ... vol. iv...." Athenæum, London, Dec. 1, 1838, pp. 849-852.
"Ornithological Biography ... vol. v...." Athenæum, London, vol. for 1839, p. 77.
143. (Anon.) Peabody, W. B. O.:
"Audubon's Ornithological Biography," North American Review, vol. i, pp. 381-404 (April). Boston, 1840.
"Audubon's Ornithology. A Synopsis of the Birds of North America. Edinburgh, 1839. The Birds of America. London and Edinburgh, vol. 1. New York, 1840," American Journal of Sciences and Arts, vol. xxxix, pp. 343-357. New Haven, 1840.
[Reply to Audubon's charge against Wilson, and countercharge against Audubon.] Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 1, pp. 272-273. Philadelphia, 1840.
Report of meeting held September 18, 1840.
"The Birds of America ... vol. ii, octavo edition ... published by J. J. Audubon, and J. B. Chevalier," American Journal of Science and Arts, vol. xlii, pp. 130-136. New Haven, 1842.
"Mr. Audubon has now nearly a thousand subscribers to his work; an instance of liberal support of a work on natural history certainly without a parallel in the New World, and hardly with one in the Old."
"A Synopsis of the Birds of North America, by J. J. Audubon. London, 1839," Oken's Isis, Bd. xxxvii, pp. 713-718. Leipzig, 1844.
"American Ornithology (The Birds of America and Ornithological Biography)," The American Review: A Whig Journal, vol. i, pp. 262-274. New York, 1845.
"About Birds and Audubon," The American Review: A Whig Journal, vol. i, pp. 371-383. New York, 1845.
Refers to a meeting with Audubon on a canal boat in Pennsylvania, when the latter was returning from his Missouri River expedition in 1843. See No. 173.
"A Talk about Birds and Audubon," The American Review: A Whig Journal, vol. ii, pp. 279-287. New York, 1845.
Interesting reference to "the great fire [of July 19, 1845] which so lately devastated so large a part of this proud city [New York]," in which the copper plates of Audubon's Birds were thought to have been destroyed (see Chapter XXXV, p. 267).
"Audubon, the Naturalist," Athenæum, London, vol. for 1856, p. 283.
Review of Mrs. Horace St. John's Life of Audubon (see No. 71).
"The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon," Athenæum, London, vol. for 1868, pp. 833-834. Review of Buchanan's Life (see No. 72).
"The Life of Audubon ... edited by Mrs. J. J. Audubon" [see No. 73], The Nation, vol. ix, pp. 13-14. New York, 1869.
Reprinted in Buchanan's Life of Audubon, "Everyman's Library" (see No. 72).
"The Adventures of Audubon," ... Edinburgh Review, vol. cxxxii, pp. 250-275. Edinburgh, 1870.
Review of Buchanan's Life.
"Shedding Horns of Antelope," Shooting and Fishing, New York, March, 1896.
For critical articles by the same author, see also the following: "On the Terrestrial Attitudes of Loons and Grebes," The Ibis, London, January, 1898; "Audubon's Figure of the Mountain Partridge," Field and Stream, New York, September 1899; "Scaup Duck," Shooting and Fishing, New York, November 26, 1903; and "The Nest of the Orchard Oriole," The Wilson Bulletin, Oberlin, June, 1903.
"A Great Naturalist," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. clxiv, pp. 58-69. Edinburgh, 1898.
Review of Audubon and his Journals.
157. (Anon.) Merriam, C. Hart:
"Audubon," The Nation, vol. LXVI, pp. 151-152. New York, 1898.
See also Science, N. S., vol. VII, pp. 289-296, with plate. New York, 1898.
Reviews of Audubon and his Journals.
"Audubon," Nature, vol. lvii, pp. 286-287. London, 1896-1898.
A dour review, in which the writer remarks that Audubon's Birds of America "has great artistic merit but less scientific value than a good series of photographs from life."
"Audubon the Original Nature Fakir," Scientific American, vol. xcviii, p. 59. New York, 1908.
A feeble echo of the slanderous charges brought against Audubon by Thomas P. Jones in 1828 (see No. 93).
"A Defense of Audubon," Scientific American, vol. xcviii, p. 311. New York, 1908.
An excellent rejoinder to the egregious article quoted above.
"Alexander Wilson," Pts. I-VIII, The Wilson Bulletin, vols. xx-xxii. Oberlin, 1908-1910.
See particularly, I. "The Audubon Controversy," vol. xx, pp. 3-18, and II. "The Mystery of the Small-headed Flycatcher," vol. xx, pp. 63-79.
"Wilson the Ornithologist," The Literary Gazette, and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts and Sciences, London, Saturday, September 3, 1831, p. 574.
A grotesque notice, based on a rumor, said to have originated in a Philadelphia newspaper, of the death of Audubon in America, but confounding his identity with that of Alexander Wilson, whose death had actually occurred at Philadelphia eighteen years before. In the issue of October 15, the editor acknowledged his error in resurrecting and then killing Wilson, but explained that the obituary was intended for Audubon.
"Mr. Audubon," Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, Thursday, November 3, 1831.
Quotes a letter written by Audubon, to Joseph B. Kidd and dated "New York, Sept. 7, 1831," four days after his death had been announced in England. In its issue of September 8, this paper had already corrected the London editor's error respecting Wilson.
164. (Anon.) Featherstonhaugh, G. W.:
"Audubon's Expedition to California and the Rocky Mountains," Monthly American Journal of Geology and Natural Science, vol. i, p. 229. (November.) Philadelphia, 1831.
"Mr. Audubon," New York Mirror, vol. 10, p. 325. New York, April 20, 1833.
"Audubon and his Labrador Expedition." Editorial in the National Gazette and Literary Register, Philadelphia, vol. xiii, No. 3808, September 10, 1833.
"We wish him a degree of success and prolongation of vigor equal to his great merits; indeed, for the past at least, success is fully assured."
"Mr. Audubon," National Gazette and Literary Register, Philadelphia (extracted from the Boston Patriot), vol. xiii, No. 3919, September 10, 1833.
Welcomes Audubon on his return to Boston, and gives detailed account of his successful Labrador expedition.
A History of British Birds, indigenous and migratory, 5 vols., 8vo. Illust. London, 1837-1852.
See Practical Ornithology, 6th. Lesson: "Ornithologus [Audubon], and Physiophilus [MacGillivray]," pp. 462-474 (1839).
Taxidermy, Bibliography, and Biography. The Cabinet Cyclopædia, conducted by the Rev. Dionysius Lardner. 12mo. London, 1840. For "J. J. Audubon, Animal Painter," see pp. 116-117.
"Epistel an Audubon nebst einer Antwort aus Amerika." Pp. 1-16, 18mo. Philadelphia, 1844.
This rare little pamphlet bears on its cover a woodcut of an Indian brandishing a gun and knife: the poem begins:
"Mann der Wälder, der Savannen!
Neben rother Indier Speer,
An des Mississippi Tannen
Lehntest du dein Jagdgewehr!"
and the response:
"Audubon, den Vogelfänger
Sangst du an, mit Herzeleid;
Freiligrath, o grosser Sänger!
Deine Lieder fliegen weit."
See also J. Bayard Taylor, "Audubon. From the German of Ferdinand Freiligrath," Graham's American Monthly Magazine, vol. xxvi, p. 264. This poem consists of twenty stanzas, the first four and best of which are:
Man of forests and savannas!
On the Mississippi's tide,
Leanest thou thy hunting-rifle
Oft the Indian spear beside;
With the forest's tawny chieftains
Thou the friendly pipe dost light—
Seest the wandering pigeon's journey
And the eagle's silent flight.
With thy shot thou lam'st his pinion;
And the trackless region through,
On the mighty river's mirror
Pliest thou thy swift canoe.
O'er the green and grassy prairie
Boldly flies thy fiery steed;
Deer and forest-fruits the manna
God has given thee in thy need!
Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810-1876), well known German lyric poet and apostle of democracy, was more than once forced to flee his native land on account of his political sentiments; he went to England seven years after Audubon had finally settled in America, and that country became his refuge for over twenty years; his translations from the English included Longfellow's poem of "Hiawatha."
"Mort de Jean Jacques Audubon, célèbre naturaliste américain," illust., L'Illustration, Paris, vol. xvii, No. 416, February 28, 1851, p. 128.
"John James Audubon," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. ii, pp. 561-563 (March). New York, 1851.
Romance of Natural History; or Wild Scenes and Wild Hunters. 8vo.; pp. 1-8, 17-610. Philadelphia, 1852.
An abridgment of the author's Wild Scenes and Wild Hunters, 1851, and also issued under the title The hunter naturalist; also published as The Romance of forest and prairie life; narrative of perilous adventures & wild hunting scenes (H. Vizetelly. London, 1853). Gives an anecdote of meeting Audubon on a canal boat in Pennsylvania, when he was returning from the Upper Missouri in 1843 (see No. 149) and is quoted here for no other reason.
Illustrated notes of an expedition through Mexico and California. Pp. 1-48, 4 plates, plain or colored. J. W. Audubon. New York, 1852. Reprinted as Extra Number 41 of The Magazine of History, with Notes and Queries. Pp. 1-83, 4 colored plates (including frontispiece). W. Abbatt. Tarrytown, 1915.
It was planned to issue this work monthly in ten numbers, if it should receive sufficient public support. The drawings are exquisitely reproduced, and as works of art are deserving of the highest praise. See No. 219.
Memoir of J. G. Children, Esq., including some unpublished poetry of his father and himself. Printed for private distribution. Pp. 1-314. Westminster, 1853.
Refers to Audubon's relations with Children, and to his naming of "Sylvia childreni," which later proved to be an error.
Fifty Years in both Hemispheres: or Reminiscences of a Merchant's Life. London, 1854.
English edition of a work originally published at Hamburg in the same year. See particularly his version of the meeting with Audubon in 1810, and of their descent of the Ohio in Nolte's flatboat to Louisville in the winter of that year.
"Audubon's Hymn in the American Forests," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. xix, p. 619 (October). New York, 1859.
178. Stoddard, Charles A[ugustus].:
"A Noble Woman's Life: A Memorial Sermon to the late Madame Audubon." Printed by request. Pp. 1-24, 18mo. Anson D. F. Randolph & Co., 770 Broadway, cor. 9th St., New York, 1874.
"Audubon's Birds of America," Magazine of American History, vol. 1, pp. 252-253. New York and Chicago, 1877.
Reproduction of a note by J. Prescott Hall concerning Audubon's subscribers.
"Audubon's Lily Rediscovered," Popular Science Monthly, vol. x (April), pp. 675-678. New York, 1877.
Records the rediscovery of Audubon's long lost and discredited yellow water lily, Nymphæa flava, by Mrs. Mary Treat, in Florida, in the summer of 1876. Originally figured by Audubon, with the Common American swan, on Plate ccccxi, of The Birds of America, in 1838.
Birds of the Colorado Valley, Bibliographical Appendix: "List of Faunal Publications relating to North American Ornithology," pp. 567-746. 8vo. Washington, 1878.
Gives full citations of the various editions of Audubon's works. "It takes an inspired idiot to be a good bibliographer" (Coues).
"Letter to J. M. Wade on Audubon's Mill," Ornithologist and Oölogist, vol. 8, p. 79. Boston, 1883.
"Rafinesque," Popular Science Monthly, vol. xxix, pp. 212-221 (June). New York, 1886. Reproduced in Pioneers of Science in America, edited by William Jay Youmans (New York, 1896).
"On an old Portrait of Audubon, painted by himself, and a word about some of his early Drawings," The Auk, vol. iii, pp. 418-430, with portrait. New York, 1886.
The Story of Some Famous Books. For Audubon, see pp. 141-144. London, 1887.
History of Henderson County, Kentucky. 8vo., pp. 1-832. Henderson, 1887.
Gives an account of Audubon's mill and of his other business ventures at Henderson, but when departing from local records is inaccurate and unreliable.
"Audubon's Grave," Science, vol. x, pp. 68-69 (Aug. 5). New York, 1887.
Refers to the project set on foot to raise funds for erecting a monument to the naturalist.
"Audubon's Grave," Science, vol. x, p. 108 (Aug. 28). New York, 1887.
Proposes that the remains of Audubon should eventually rest in the crypt of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City.
[Audubon's Grave], Science, vol. x, p. 205 (Oct. 28). New York, 1887.
Announces the appointment of a committee by the New York Academy of Sciences to secure funds for the erection of the proposed monument.
See also the same, vol. x, p. 278 (Dec. 9).
"Audubonian Sketches," The Audubonian Magazine, published in the interests of the Audubon Society for the protection of birds, vol. i (January), pp. 267-271, illust., and vol. ii (February), pp. 3-6, illust. New York, 1888.
See files of the same magazine, vol. i, pp. i-xi, 1-288, February, 1887-January, 1888, and vol. ii, pp. i-vi, 1-264, February, 1888-January, 1889, New York, for various comments on Audubon's life and services.
John Bachman, D.D., LL.D., Ph.D. 8vo, pp. i-xii, 1-436, with portrait. Charleston, 1888.
Reproduces numerous letters which passed between the Bachman and Audubon families.
"A Forgotten Volume," The Auk, vol. viii, p. 230. New York, 1891.
"Report of the Audubon Monument Committee of The New York Academy of Sciences," Transactions of the Academy, vol. xiii, pp. 23-69. New York, 1893.
"Audubon the Naturalist," illust., The Great Divide, San Francisco, September, 1893.
"More about Audubon the Naturalist," ibid., February, 1894.
"Audubon," Southern Magazine, vol. iii, August, 1893, pp. 3-19, portrait and illust. Louisville, 1893-1894.
196. Shufeldt, R. W., and Audubon, M. R.:
"The Last Portrait of Audubon, together with a letter to his son," The Auk, vol. xi, pp. 309-313, portrait. New York, 1894.
The original of D'Avignon's engraving, published in 1850; see No. 62.
Reminiscences of a Portrait Painter. Chicago, 1894.
Gives an account of his successful manœuvres to obtain sittings for his portrait of Audubon in 1838.
The Life and Writings of Rafinesque. Filson Club Publications, No. 10. 4to. Pp. i-xii, 1-227. Louisville, 1895.
Takes Audubon severely to task for his treatment of Rafinesque at Henderson in the summer of 1818; see pp. 24-29.
199. "Renignolds" (E. R. Shattuck):
"Audubon's Plates sold for Junk," Forest and Stream, New York, September 12, 1896.
Bakewell-Page-Campbell. Being an account of the descendants of John Bakewell, of Castle Donnington, Leicestershire, England, born in 1638, &c., &c. Wm. H. Johnston & Company. Pittsburgh, 1896.
Gives genealogy of the Bakewells, and of the families of J. J., J. W. and V. G. Audubon.
"Letter by Audubon to Charles Bonaparte, dated New York, May 1, 1833," The Osprey, vol. ii. Washington, 1897.
Rozier's History of the early Settlement of the Mississippi Valley. 8vo., pp. 1-338. St. Louis, 1898.
See Part X for some account of the business relations of Audubon with the author's father, Ferdinand Rozier.
"William Swainson to John James Audubon, The Auk, vol. xv, pp. 11-13. Cambridge, 1898.
Letter dated "Tettenhanger Green, 2d October 1830"; reprinted in The Osprey, vols. iv and v (Washington, 1900).
"The unpublished correspondence of William Swainson with contemporary naturalists (1806-1840)," Proceedings of the Linnæan Society, 112th session, pp. 14-24. London, 1900.
Lists twenty-four letters of Audubon to Swainson, dating from 1 May, 1828, to 11 Jany., 1838, with brief reference to their contents. For abstract of this paper see Theodore Gill, "Swainson's Correspondence." The Osprey, vol. v, pp. 29-30 (Washington, 1900).
"Correspondence of and about Audubon with Swainson," The Osprey, vol. v, pp. 23-25. Washington, 1900.
"William Swainson and his Times," The Osprey, vols. iv and v. Washington, 1900.
"Recent Sales of Audubon's Works," The Osprey, vol. v, pp. 31 and 63. Washington, 1900.
Copy of The Birds of America sold by Bangs, February 6, 1896, for $1,250, and another by Sotheran, London, 1892, for £345 (about $1,725), the first with the Ornithological Biography included.
207a. Bohemian (C. S. Boutcher):
"Early Days in the Lehigh Valley," Black Diamond Express, vol. iv, pp. 3-15. New York, 1900.
Describes Audubon's visit to Mauch Chunk in 1829, and gives also a detailed account of the copy of The Birds of America formerly the property of David Eckley, of Boston, and then in possession of Robert H. Sayre, of South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (for which see Chapter XXVI, p. 7).
"Audubon in the [American] Museum [of Natural History]," with explanatory notes by Maria R. Audubon, The American Museum Journal, vol. 1, pp. 82-84, with portrait. New York, 1900-1901.
Describes portrait of Audubon painted by his sons towards the close of his life, and given to the Museum by Mr. Fordham Morris, of New York, an oil painting of wild turkeys, the original of which was made by Audubon in 1826 for the Royal Institution of Liverpool, and several other paintings and plates. In vol. ii, page 42, of the same journal is reproduced an unpublished painting of the Red-eyed Vireo by Audubon.
"Unpublished Letters of William MacGillivray to John James Audubon," The Auk, vol. xviii, pp. 239-249. Cambridge, 1901.
"Auduboniana and Other Matters of Present Interest," Bird Lore, vol. iii, p. 9. New York, 1901.
"Relics of Audubon," Chicago Evening Post, February 7, 1901.
An account of Auduboniana and other literary rarities in possession of Mr. Ruthven Deane.
A Memorial Tribute to William MacGillivray, M.A., LL.D. Ornithologist; Professor of Natural History, Marischal College and University, Aberdeen. 4to, pp. i-xvi, 1-204, with illust. Edinburgh, 1901.
Contains sketch of MacGillivray's life and work, with an account of the monument placed over his grave, and of a beautiful memorial tablet inscribed to his memory at Marischal College, with an unpublished "Journal" by MacGillivray, and extracts from his other writings.
In the Days of Audubon; A Tale of the "Protector of Birds." Illustrated. Pp. x-xii, 1-236. New York, 1901.
"Following Audubon among the Florida Keys," Outing, vol. xliii, pp. 71-79, illust. New York, 1903.
"Audubon's 'Ornithological Biography,'" The Auk, vol. xxi, p. 286. Cambridge, 1904.
Note on volume i of the American edition, bearing the imprint: "Philadelphia: Judah Dobson, Agent, 108 Chestnut Street; and H. H. Porter, Literary Rooms, 121 Chestnut Street. MDCCCXXXI." See also Ruthven Deane, The Auk, vol. xxiv, 1907, p. 111, and Nathaniel E. Janney, the same, p. 349.
This writer at one time proposed to bring out a revised edition of the Ornithological Biography, but the project was abandoned from lack of support.
"[John James Audubon]; Notice of the Commemoration of the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of his birth," The Auk, vol. xxii, p. 334 (July). Cambridge, 1905.
See Chapter I, Note 6.
"John James Abert to John James Audubon" (hitherto unpublished letters), The Auk, vol. xxii, pp. 172-175. Cambridge, 1905.
"William Swainson to John James Audubon" (a hitherto unpublished letter), The Auk, vol. xxii, pp. 31-34. Cambridge, 1905.
"William Swainson to John James Audubon," The Auk, vol. xxii, pp. 248-258. Cambridge, 1905.
Audubon's Western Journal: 1849-1850. Being the MS. record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an overland journey through Mexico and Arizona to the gold-fields of California. With a biographical memoir by Maria R. Audubon, and edited by Frank Heywood Hodder. Map, portrait, and original drawings. Pp. 1-250, 8vo. Cleveland, 1906.
For the original edition of Part 1 of J. W. Audubon's Journal, see No. 174 of this Bibliography.
Simple Love and Occasional Pieces in Verse, with A Notice of Audubon. Pp. 1-60. New Orleans, 1906.
"A Bibliography and Nomenclator of John James Audubon," The Auk, vol. xxiii, pp. 298-312. Cambridge, 1906.
Most complete and accurate analysis of Audubon's ornithological works yet given.
"Abstract of Audubon's Account Books, kept at Philadelphia, while the Octavo edition of the Birds was being issued," Evening Post, New York, Saturday Supplement for December 29, 1906.
"Original Account Book of J. J. Audubon," The Nation, vol. lxxxiv, p. 12 (June 3). New York, 1907.
See the preceding; gives interesting data regarding the issue of the first octavo edition of The Birds of America in parts, at Philadelphia, 1840-1844.
"Unpublished Letters of Introduction carried by John James Audubon on his Missouri River Expedition," The Auk, vol. xxv, pp. 170-173. Cambridge, 1908.
"The Copper-Plates of the Folio Edition of Audubon's 'Birds of America,' with a brief Sketch of the Engravers," The Auk, vol. xxv, pp. 401-413. Cambridge, 1908.
"The King Cameos of Audubon," The Auk, vol. xxv, pp. 448-450, with plate. Cambridge, 1908.
"Audubon, the Ornithologist, in Kentucky," The Taylor-Trotwood Magazine, vol. 10, pp. 293-298. Nashville, 1909.
In letter, to Audubon, dated January 17, 1835. Reproduction of "The Eagle and the Lamb." Forest and Stream, June 26, 1909, pp. 1011-1012. New York, 1909.
"An hitherto unpublished painting by Audubon," The Wilson Bulletin, N. S., vol. xii, pp. 3-5, illust. Oberlin, 1910.
Oil painting of cock and hens, but original in poor state of preservation.
Rafinesque. A Sketch of his Life with Bibliography. 8vo., pp. 1-242, with portrait and reproductions of rare titles. Historical Department of Iowa, Des Moines, 1911.
Cites 939 separate publications by Rafinesque, numerous manuscripts and 134 Rafinesquiana.
"John James Audubon, and the Birds of Louisiana," Times-Picayune, New Orleans, May 2, 1915.
Gives an account, with illustrations, of "Fontainebleau," and of the house at Mandeville which is regarded as "the probable birthplace" of Audubon.
"Audubon in West Feliciana," Times-Picayune, New Orleans, August 6, 1916.
Follows Audubon's footsteps in Louisiana, and gives an interesting account, with illustrations, of the plantation houses at which Mr. and Mrs. Audubon lived at various intervals from 1821 to 1829.
"More Light on Audubon's Folio 'Birds of America,'" The Auk, vol. xxxiii, pp. 130-132. Cambridge, 1916.
"Robert Havell, Junior, Engraver of Audubon's 'The Birds of America,'" Print-Collector's Quarterly, vol. 6, No. 3 (October), pp. 225-257, illust. Boston, 1916.
Presents a genealogy of the Havell family, and gives an excellent analysis of the work of the eminent engraver.
"More Buried Treasure in a Noted Basement," New York Tribune, Sunday, March 11, 1917.
An appeal for a better treatment of the originals of Audubon's Birds of America. "The original charter of the New York Historical Society signifies that the organization was formed to preserve the history of the United States, and especially the history of the City of New York. If Audubon's wonderful drawings of the birds of America are not United States history and New York City history rolled into one, then what, in the name of Herodotus, Father of History, is?"
"In Audubon's Labrador," The Auk, vol. xxxiv, pp. 133-146, illust. Cambridge, 1917.