Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)Herrick, Francis Hobart
History
Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)
Herrick, Francis Hobart
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
Gives genealogy of the Bakewells, and of the families of J. J., J. W.
and V. G. Audubon.
201. COUES, ELLIOTT:
"Letter by Audubon to Charles Bonaparte, dated New York, May 1,
1833," _The Osprey_, vol. ii. Washington, 1897.
202. ROZIER, FIRMAN A.:
_Rozier's History of the early Settlement of the Mississippi
Valley._ 8vo., pp. 1-338. St. Louis, 1898.
See Part X for some account of the business relations of Audubon with
the author's father, Ferdinand Rozier.
203. COUES, ELLIOTT:
"William Swainson to John James Audubon, _The Auk_, vol. xv, pp.
11-13. Cambridge, 1898.
Letter dated "Tettenhanger Green, 2d October 1830"; reprinted in _The
Osprey_, vols. iv and v (Washington, 1900).
204. GÜNTHER, ALBERT:
"The unpublished correspondence of William Swainson with
contemporary naturalists (1806-1840)," _Proceedings of the Linnæan
Society_, 112th session, pp. 14-24. London, 1900.
Lists twenty-four letters of Audubon to Swainson, dating from 1 May,
1828, to 11 Jany., 1838, with brief reference to their contents. For
abstract of this paper see Theodore Gill, "Swainson's Correspondence."
_The Osprey_, vol. v, pp. 29-30 (Washington, 1900).
205. GILL, THEODORE:
"Correspondence of and about Audubon with Swainson," _The Osprey_,
vol. v, pp. 23-25. Washington, 1900.
206. GILL, THEODORE:
"William Swainson and his Times," _The Osprey_, vols. iv and v.
Washington, 1900.
207. (ANON.):
"Recent Sales of Audubon's Works," _The Osprey_, vol. v, pp. 31
and 63. Washington, 1900.
Copy of _The Birds of America_ sold by Bangs, February 6, 1896, for
$1,250, and another by Sotheran, London, 1892, for £345 (about $1,725),
the first with the _Ornithological Biography_ included.
207a. BOHEMIAN (C. S. BOUTCHER):
"Early Days in the Lehigh Valley," _Black Diamond Express_, vol.
iv, pp. 3-15. New York, 1900.
Describes Audubon's visit to Mauch Chunk in 1829, and gives also a
detailed account of the copy of _The Birds of America_ formerly the
property of David Eckley, of Boston, and then in possession of Robert
H. Sayre, of South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (for which see Chapter XXVI,
p. 7).
208. (ANON.):
"Audubon in the [American] Museum [of Natural History]," with
explanatory notes by Maria R. Audubon, _The American Museum
Journal_, vol. 1, pp. 82-84, with portrait. New York, 1900-1901.
Describes portrait of Audubon painted by his sons towards the close
of his life, and given to the Museum by Mr. Fordham Morris, of New
York, an oil painting of wild turkeys, the original of which was made
by Audubon in 1826 for the Royal Institution of Liverpool, and several
other paintings and plates. In vol. ii, page 42, of the same journal is
reproduced an unpublished painting of the Red-eyed Vireo by Audubon.
209. DEANE, RUTHVEN:
"Unpublished Letters of William MacGillivray to John James
Audubon," _The Auk_, vol. xviii, pp. 239-249. Cambridge, 1901.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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