_Winter._—Spent with Bachman at Charleston, in waiting for his promised vessel; makes drawings of Nuttall's and Townsend's birds, and plans for a work on the _Quadrupeds of North America_. _1837_ _Spring._—Starts overland with Edward Harris and John W. Audubon for New Orleans; there meets the revenue cutter _Campbell_, and in her and her tender, the _Crusader_, the party proceeds as far as Galveston, Texas; visits President Sam Houston. _May 18._—Leaves for New Orleans, and on June 8 reaches Charleston. John Woodhouse Audubon is married to Bachman's eldest daughter, Maria Rebecca. To Washington, and meets President Martin Van Buren. _July 16._—Sails with his son and daughter-in-law on the packet _England_ from New York; reaches Liverpool on August 2d, and on the 7th is in London. The panic of this year causes loss of many subscribers, but Audubon decides to extend _The Birds of America_ to 87 parts, in order to admit every new American bird discovered up to that time. _1838_ _June 20._—Eighty-seventh part of _The Birds of America_ published, thus completing the fourth volume and concluding the work, which was begun at Edinburgh in the autumn of 1826. _Summer._—By way of a holiday celebration tours the Highlands of Scotland with his family and William MacGillivray. _Autumn._—To Edinburgh, where, with the assistance of MacGillivray, the fourth volume of his _Biography_ is issued in November. _1839_ _May._—Fifth and concluding volume of the _Ornithological Biography_ is published at Edinburgh. _A Synopsis of the Birds of North America_, which immediately follows, brings his European life and labors to a close. _Late summer._—Returns with his family to New York, and settles at 86 White Street. Victor, who preceded his father to America, is married to Mary Eliza Bachman. Projects at once a small or "miniature" edition of his _Ornithology_, and begins work on the _Quadrupeds_. Collaboration of Bachman in this project is later secured. _1840-1844_ First octavo edition of _The Birds of America_ is published at Philadelphia, in seven volumes, with lithographic, colored plates and meets with unprecedented success; issued to subscribers in 100 parts, of five plates each with text, at one dollar a part. _1840_ _June._—Begins a correspondence with young Spencer F. Baird, which leads to an intimate friendship of great mutual benefit, Baird discovering new birds and sending him many specimens. _1841_ Purchases land on the Hudson, in Carmansville, at the present 157th Street, and begins to build a house. _July 29._—Writes to Spencer F. Baird that he was then as anxious about the publication of the _Quadrupeds_ as he ever was about procuring birds. _1842_