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March 5th he started for Philadelphia; the railroad 

 was much obstructed by deep snow, but after a collision 

 and a series of other accidents he finally reached the city 

 in safety. 



Beside old friends he met Leidy, and William Gambel, 6 

 who had been collecting birds in California; Dr Edward 

 Hallowell the herpetologist, Dr. John Griffiths, a conch- 

 ologist, John Krider, taxidermist, James D. Dana, 

 whom he had helped with his Crustacea in Washington, 

 Mr. Longacre of the Mint, who showed him a nugget of 

 native gold from Virginia weighing twenty-three ounces; 

 and others. 



From John ] , Audubon to S. F. Baird. 



MINNIE'S LAND, N. Y. 



March 14 th 1846. 

 MY DEAR FRIEND, 



Your favor of the 7th Inst. was duly rec'd. We have already 

 published the "Mustela" of Lichtenstein who also published it many 

 Years ago, therefore, I offer my best thanks to Mr. Gambel for his 

 kind offer. 



I have not seen the Zoology of Beechey's Voyage to the Pacific. 

 I should like much to receive at your hands the descriptions therein 

 given of the Species given and which I have not read. When you 

 come to New York I beg that you will make our house your head- 

 quarters for the time being! 



Could you procure a black and a Silver Fox for us, we will be 

 willing to give a good price for either in the flesh, and preserved in 

 common New England Rum, and forwarded by express to 78 John 

 St. N. Y. 



5 William Gambel, M.D., born about 1820, and died Dec. 13, 

 1849, in California at Rose's Bar, after a hairbreadth escape from the 

 privations which resulted in the death of most of the members of 

 Captain Boone's party crossing the Sierras in the winter of 1849. 

 He was an ornithologist of more than ordinary promise, and through 

 his explorations added numerous new birds to the known fauna. 



