294 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 



Chap. CXXIX. — AN act making appropriations for cer- 

 tain Civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the 

 thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. 

 To enable the Secretary of State to purchase one hundred 

 copies, each, of Audubon's "Birds of America" and "Quadru- 

 peds of America," for presentation to foreign governments, in 

 return for valuable works sent by them to the Government of 

 the United States, sixteen thousand dollars. 

 [Act of August 18, 1858 (LL State., 90).] 



In John Woodhouse Audubon's family there were 

 two sets of children, two by his former wife, Maria R. 

 Bachman, and seven by Caroline Hall, to whom he was 

 married on October 2, 1841. Victor Gifford Audubon, 

 who had no children by his first wife, May Eliza Bach- 

 man, was married on March 2, 1843, to Georgiana Rich- 

 ards Mallory, of New England, and six children were 

 born to them between 1845 and 1854. Of the natural- 

 ist's fifteen grandchildren, six are believed to be now 

 living (1917). 3 



In 1852-3 Audubon's sons built houses for their 



3 John W. Audubon's children by Maria Bachman were: (l) Lucy 

 Audubon (Mrs. De Lancey Barclay Williams), 1838-1909; (2) Harriet 

 Bachman Audubon, 1839-1933; by Caroline Hall, who died in 1899: (3) 

 John James Audubon, 1842 (lived one day) ; (4) Maria Rebecca Audubon, 

 1843-1925; (5) John James Audubon, 1845-1893; (6) William Bakewell 

 Audubon, 1847-1932. who emigrated to Australia, where he engaged in 

 sheep-raising, and had two children, Leonard Benjamin and Eleanor Car- 

 oline Audubon; Leonard Benjamin Audubon (born in 1888) fought in the 

 World War with the 55th Battalion of the Australian contingent, and 

 in the spring of 1917 he was promoted from the ranks "on account of great 

 bravery under unusual conditions"; if still living, he is the sole male 

 representative of the American branch of the Audubon family; (7) Jane 

 Audubon, 1849-1853; (8) Florence Audubon, 1853- ; (9) Benjamin Phillips 

 Audubon, 1855-1886- 



Victor G. Audubon had six children by his second wife, Georgiana R. 

 Mallory, who died in 1882: (l) Mary Eliza Audubon, 1845- ; (2) Rose 

 Audubon, 1846-1879; (3) Victor Gifford Audubon, 1847-1915; (4) Delia 

 Talman- (Mrs. Morris Frank Tyler), 1849- ; (5) Lucy Bakewell Audu- 

 bon, 1851-1898; and (6) Anne Gordon Audubon, 1854-1907. 



