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
"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).
151. (ANON.):
"Audubon, the Naturalist," _Athenæum_, London, vol. for 1856, p.
283.
Review of Mrs. Horace St. John's _Life of Audubon_ (see No. 71).
152. (ANON.):
"The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon," _Athenæum_,
London, vol. for 1868, pp. 833-834. Review of Buchanan's _Life_
(see No. 72).
153. (ANON.) BURROUGHS, JOHN:
"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).
154. (ANON.):
"The Adventures of Audubon," ... _Edinburgh Review_, vol. cxxxii,
pp. 250-275. Edinburgh, 1870.
Review of Buchanan's _Life_.
155. SHUFELDT, R. W.:
"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.
156. (ANON.):
"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_.
158. M[IALL], L. C.:
"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."
159. HUTT, W. N.:
"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).
160. COLLES, GEORGE W.:
"A Defense of Audubon," _Scientific American_, vol. xcviii, p.
311. New York, 1908.
An excellent rejoinder to the egregious article quoted above.
161. BURNS, FRANK L.:
"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.
j. Auduboniana and Miscellanea
162. (ANON.):
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