3.54 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 



him to Lord Stanley. When he came to write his Orni- 

 thological Biography, these early friends were all pub- 

 licly called by name, and we thus had (though, as it 

 afterwards appeared, in name only) the "Rathbone 

 Warbler," 5 "Stanley Hawk," "Children's Warbler," 

 "Cuvier's Regulus," "Roscoe's Yellow-throat," "Selby's 

 Flycatcher," and still possess "Bewick's Wren," 

 "Traill's Flycatcher," "Henslow's Bunting," "Mae- 

 Gillivray's Finch," and "Harlan's Hawk," to cite a few 

 instances of this form of acknowledgment. 



Within barely a week after landing at Liverpool a 

 total stranger, Audubon was invited to show his draw- 

 ings at the Royal Institution. The exhibition, which 

 lasted a month, was a surprising success; 413 persons, 

 as he recorded, were admitted on the second day, and it 

 netted him one hundred pounds although no charge for 

 admission was made during the first week. 



Everyone, said the naturalist, was surprised at his 

 appearance, for he wore his hair long, dressed in un- 

 fashionable clothes, rose early, worked late, and was 

 abstemious in food and drink. Shortly after his arrival, 



contributed to the Edinburgh and Westminster Reviews. Traill's exposure 

 of the neglect which the natural-history collections had suffered in the 

 custody of the British Museum paved the way to a separate Department 

 of Zoology, which in the able hands of John E. Gray, and later in those 

 of Sir Richard Owen, led to the present great Museum of Natural History 

 at South Kensington. 



6 In dedicating the Sylvia rathbonia Audubon said: "Were I at liberty 

 here to express the gratitude which swells my heart, when the remembrance 

 of all the unmerited kindness and unlooked-for friendship which I have 

 received from the Rathbones of Liverpool comes to my mind, I might pro- 

 duce a volume of thanks. But I must content myself with informing you, 

 that the small tribute of gratitude which it is alone in my power to pay, 

 I now joyfully accord, by naming after them one of those birds, to the 

 study of which all my efforts have been directed. I trust that future 

 naturalists, regardful of the feelings which have guided me in naming 

 this species, will continue to it the name of the Rathbone Warbler." 



"Named after John Stevens Henslow, Professor of Botany in the 

 University of Cambridge, whom Audubon had met in 1828, when Charles 

 Darwin was still his pupil. 



