440 APPENDICES 



See also Science, N. S., vol. VII, pp. 289-296, with 

 plate. New York, 1898. 

 Reviews of Audubon and his Journals. 



158. M[iall],L. e.: 



"Audubon," Nature, vol. lvii, pp. 286-287. London, 



1896-1898. 

 A dour review, in which the writer remarks that Audubon's 

 Birds of America "has great artistic merit but less scientific 

 value than a good series of photographs from life." 



159. Hutt, W. N.: 



"Audubon the Original Nature Fakir," Scientific 

 American, vol. xcviii, p. 59. New York, 1908. 

 A feeble echo of the slanderous charges brought against 

 Audubon by Thomas P. Jones in 1828 (see No. 93). 



160. Colles, George W. : 



"A Defense of Audubon," Scientific American, vol. 

 xcviii, p. 311. New York, 1908. 

 An excellent rejoinder to the egregious article quoted above. 



161. Burns, Frank L. : 



"Alexander Wilson," Pts. I-VIII, The Wilson Bul- 

 letin, vols, xx-xxii. Oberlin, 1908-1910. 

 See particularly, I. "The Audubon Controversy," vol. xx, 

 pp. 3-18, and II. "The Mystery of the Small-headed Fly- 

 catcher," vol. xx, pp. 63-79. 



j. Auduboniana and Miscellanea 



162. (Anon.): 



"Wilson the Ornithologist," The Literary Gazette, 

 and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts and Sciences, Lon- 

 don, Saturday, September 3, 1831, p. 574. 

 A grotesque notice, based on a rumor, said to have origi- 

 nated in a Philadelphia newspaper, of the death of Audubon 



