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CHAPTER XXI 



Debut as a Naturalist 



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Makes his bow at Philadelphia — Is greeted with plaudits and cold water 

 —Friendship of Harlan, Sully, Bonaparte and Harris— Hostility of 

 Ord, Lawson and other friends of Alexander Wilson— A meeting 

 of academicians— Visit to "Mill Grove" — Exhibits drawings in 

 New York and becomes a member of the Lyceum — At the Falls 

 of Niagara— In a gale on Lake Erie— Episode at Meadville— Walk 

 to Pittsburgh — Tour of Lakes Ontario and Champlain — Decides to 

 take his drawings to Europe — Descends the Ohio in a skiff — 

 Stranded at Cincinnati — Teaching at St. Francisville .... 327 



CHAPTER XXII 



To Europe and Success 



Audubon sails from New Orleans — Life at sea — Liverpool — The Rath- 

 bones — Exhibition of drawings an immediate success — Personal ap- 

 pearance—Painting habits resumed — His pictures and methods- 

 Manchester visited — Plans for publication — The Birds of America 

 — Welcome at Edinburgh — Lizars engraves the Turkey Cock — In 

 the role of society's lion — His exhibition described by a French 

 critic — Honors of science and the arts — Contributions to journals 

 excite criticism — Aristocratic patrons — Visit to Scott — The Wild 

 Pigeon and the rattlesnake— Letter to his wife— Prospectus— Jour- 

 ney to London 347 



CHAPTER XXIII 



Audubon in London 



Impressions of the metropolis— A trunk full of letters— Friendship of 

 Children— Sir Thomas Lawrence— Lizars stops work— A family of 

 artists— Robert Havell, Junior— The Birds of America fly to Lon- 

 don—The Zoological Gallery— Crisis in the naturalist's affairs- 

 Royal patronage— Interview with Gallatin— Interesting the Queen- 

 Desertion of patrons — Painting to independence — Personal habits 

 and tastes— Enters the Linnaean Society — The white-headed Eagle 

 —Visit to the great universities— Declines to write for magazines 

 — Audubon-Swainson correspondence — "Highfield Hall" near Tyt- 

 tenhanger — In Paris with Swainson — Glimpses of Cuvier— His re- 

 port on The Birds of America— Patronage of the French Govern- 

 ment and the Duke of Orleans — Bonaparte the naturalist . . .377 



