xxiv AUDUBON THE NATURALIST 



CHAPTER XXIV 



First Visit to America in Search of New Birds 



PAtiK 



Settles for a time in Camden — Paints in a fisherman's cottage by the 

 sea— With the lumbermen in the Great Pine Woods — Work done — 

 Visits his sons — Joins his wife at St. Francisville — Record of jour- 

 ney south — Life at "Beechgrove" — Mrs. Audubon retires from 

 teaching — Their plans to return to England — Meeting with Presi- 

 dent Jackson and Edward Everett 4*20 



CHAPTER XXV 



Audubon's Letterpress and Its Rivals 



Settlement in London — Starts on canvassing tour with his wife — 

 Change of plans — In Edinburgh — Discovery of MaeGillivray — His 

 hand in the Ornithological Biography — Rival editions of Wilson 

 and Bonaparte — Brown's extraordinary Atlas — Reception of the 

 Biography— Joseph Bartholomew Kidd and the Ornithological Gal- 

 lery — In London again 437 



