Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)Herrick, Francis Hobart
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Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)
Herrick, Francis Hobart
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
Signed "Walton Hall, Jany. 1, 1833." A caustic reply to the last.
Reprinted in _Essays in Natural History, chiefly Ornithology_, First
Series. London, 1838.
111. WATERTON, CHARLES:
"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)."
112. WATERTON, CHARLES:
"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.
113. AUDUBON, V. G.:
"[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.
114. R[OBERT] B[AKEWELL]:
"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."
115. WATERTON, CHARLES:
[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."
116. WATERTON, CHARLES:
"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.
117. SWAINSON, WILLIAM:
"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.
Dated Sept. 17, 1832.
118. AUDUBON, V. G.:
"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.
119. WATERTON, CHARLES:
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