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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 





Art. I. Retrospective Criticism. 



Corrections. — In Vol. IV. p. 267. line 13., for " pupae," 

 read " pupa." In Vol. VI. p. 150., in the " locality for the 

 kingjlsher," for " Cauford, Dorset," read " Canford, Dorset." 

 In p. 181. line 14., in the criticism on Mr. Moggridge's ac- 

 count of a " singular subsidence of the chalk measures near 

 Lower Meudon, near Paris," for " nearly," read " marly." 

 In p. 209. line 22., for the translation there given of the 

 Latin quotation, substitute, as more accurate, this : " A bad 

 cause will be made worse by defence." In p. 333., for "d, 

 larva," read " c, larva." In p. 335. line 10., erase the word 

 "it." In p. 369. line 17., the quotation ends with the word 

 " Biography" In p. 380. line 20., after " of my paper," in- 

 sert "[p. 116 — 120.]" as, without this, it seems that the 

 paper was published in the Ent. Mag. not this Magazine. 

 In p. 384. line 20., for " with eggs in," read " with eggs in 

 it." In p. 384. line 22., for " building," read " breeding." 



Mr. Audubon. \_Mr. Waterton in reply to Mr. Audubon, jun., 

 p. 369.] — Extract from a paper written by the elegant bio- 

 grapher of Wilson, dated July 20. 1831 : — " The reason 

 why Swainson did not write the work " (alluding to the 

 Biography of Birds), " as told me by himself, was, that Au- 

 dubon insisted upon his own name being given to the world 

 as author ! Mr. Swainson, upon this, very properly declined 

 having any thing to do with the affair. — G. Ord" 



The above requires no comment from me. 



It is somewhat singular that Mr. Audubon, jun., should 

 complain (p. 369.) of what he calls my "attacks" on his 

 father, when he has taken no notice of the momentous charge 

 which Dr. Jones brought against his father in the Franklin 

 Journal; a full account of which is to be found in the Me- 

 chanics' Magazine for March, 1832, p. 404. In the Franklin 

 Journal, the veracity of Mr. Audubon, as a naturalist, is called 

 in question in the most unqualified manner. Now, Mr. Audu- 

 bon being in England at the time the charge was made against 

 him, and " unable to answer for himself," how comes it that 

 Mr. Audubon, jun., did not complain of the attack during his 



