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could readily spare, told him that that was not what he 

 meant, that he was to take any that he really wished, 

 and, finally, he, Mr. Audubon went through the collection 

 himself and took out with his own hand many additional 

 specimens, and among them some of the most valuable 

 in the entire collection." 7 



April 22nd he arrived in Philadelphia, where he 

 attended to various commissions, dined with Dr. Hallo- 

 well, and at the Academy met Sir Charles Lyell, the 

 geologist, Gambel, and Heermann, 8 who was later one of 

 the collectors on the Pacific railway explorations. Five 

 days later, with a large array of bandboxes, baskets and 

 bags containing his specimens, he proceeded to Carlisle. 



The fifth of May, the Journal records, he "went to 

 Graham's thicket at 6 A. M. back at 9.30, shot 41 birds; 

 stuffed 33 birds today in the railroad office where I kept 

 the office for Uncle Ned who is absent." The following 

 day he shot 20 birds and stuffed 16, and the next shot 

 26 and stuffed 22; several of his pupils being present to 

 watch the process. 



On the 24th Colonel Churchill and some members of 

 his family arrived from the south. It is noted that Mary 

 Churchill, being ill, was staying with Mrs. Baird. 



Baird mentions that he got a lot of red cedar for 

 shavings, to be put in the bottom of his bird cases to 



7 These birds are still among the cherished treasures of the collec- 

 tion in the National Museum at Washington. 



8 Adolphus L. Heermann, M.D., field naturalist, collector and 

 explorer, born about 1818, died in San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 2, 1865. 

 He was one of the early explorers of the far West, and a member of 

 Lieutenant Williamson's expedition of 1853. His collections of birds 

 and fossils are described in the report of the Pacific Railroad Surveys 

 in 1859. 



