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
Refers to Audubon's relations with Children, and to his naming of
"Sylvia childreni," which later proved to be an error.
176. NOLTE, VINCENT:
_Fifty Years in both Hemispheres: or Reminiscences of a Merchant's
Life._ London, 1854.
English edition of a work originally published at Hamburg in the same
year. See particularly his version of the meeting with Audubon in 1810,
and of their descent of the Ohio in Nolte's flatboat to Louisville in
the winter of that year.
177. WALLACE, W. ROSS:
"Audubon's Hymn in the American Forests," _Harper's New Monthly
Magazine_, vol. xix, p. 619 (October). New York, 1859.
178. STODDARD, CHARLES A[UGUSTUS].:
"A Noble Woman's Life: A Memorial Sermon to the late Madame
Audubon." Printed by request. Pp. 1-24, 18mo. Anson D. F. Randolph
& Co., 770 Broadway, cor. 9th St., New York, 1874.
179. F.:
"Audubon's Birds of America," _Magazine of American History_, vol.
1, pp. 252-253. New York and Chicago, 1877.
Reproduction of a note by J. Prescott Hall concerning Audubon's
subscribers.
180. LOCKWOOD, SAMUEL:
"Audubon's Lily Rediscovered," _Popular Science Monthly_, vol. x
(April), pp. 675-678. New York, 1877.
Records the rediscovery of Audubon's long lost and discredited yellow
water lily, _Nymphæa flava_, by Mrs. Mary Treat, in Florida, in the
summer of 1876. Originally figured by Audubon, with the Common American
swan, on Plate ccccxi, of _The Birds of America_, in 1838.
181. COUES, ELLIOTT:
_Birds of the Colorado Valley_, Bibliographical Appendix: "List of
Faunal Publications relating to North American Ornithology," pp.
567-746. 8vo. Washington, 1878.
Gives full citations of the various editions of Audubon's works. "It
takes an inspired idiot to be a good bibliographer" (Coues).
182. WADE, JOSEPH M.:
"Letter to J. M. Wade on Audubon's Mill," _Ornithologist and
Oölogist_, vol. 8, p. 79. Boston, 1883.
183. JORDAN, DAVID STARR:
"Rafinesque," _Popular Science Monthly_, vol. xxix, pp. 212-221
(June). New York, 1886. Reproduced in _Pioneers of Science in
America_, edited by William Jay Youmans (New York, 1896).
184. SHUFELDT, R. W.:
"On an old Portrait of Audubon, painted by himself, and a word
about some of his early Drawings," _The Auk_, vol. iii, pp.
418-430, with portrait. New York, 1886.
185. SAUNDERS, FREDERICK:
_The Story of Some Famous Books._ For Audubon, see pp. 141-144.
London, 1887.
186. STARLING, EDMUND L.:
_History of Henderson County, Kentucky._ 8vo., pp. 1-832.
Henderson, 1887.
Gives an account of Audubon's mill and of his other business ventures
at Henderson, but when departing from local records is inaccurate and
unreliable.
187. MARTIN, D. S.:
"Audubon's Grave," _Science_, vol. x, pp. 68-69 (Aug. 5). New
York, 1887.
Refers to the project set on foot to raise funds for erecting a
monument to the naturalist.
188. SHUFELDT, R. W.:
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