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
"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.
163. BROWN, CAPT. THOMAS:
"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.
165. (ANON.):
"Mr. Audubon," _New York Mirror_, vol. 10, p. 325. New York, April
20, 1833.
166. (ANON.):
"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."
167. (ANON.):
"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.
168. MACGILLIVRAY, WILLIAM:
_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).
169. SWAINSON, WILLIAM:
_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.
170. FREILIGRATH, F.:
"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."
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