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
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."
135. WATERTON, CHARLES:
"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.
136. (ANON.):
"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."
137. (ANON.):
"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.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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