The Wood Warblers 



other, unforgotten footsteps; for Audubon 

 was unquestionably the truest bird-lover of 

 us all. 



And if we have not thus far realized it 

 in Pennsylvania as we should^ there are 

 nevertheless signs we are approaching 

 gradually a full recognition of the fact. 



Down in Louisiana, where he was born 

 while the Revolution was still in progress, 

 they have, at New Orleans, a magnificent 

 park bearing his name, which, with its 

 splendid Horticultural Hall filled with trop- 

 ical trees and plants, and its model sugar 

 and cotton farm fronting on the Mississippi, 

 constitutes an adequate monument to this 

 pioneer, who won kings for his patrons 

 that they might help him bring to successful 

 completion after many years a publication 

 which has commanded the admiration of 

 the world ever since. 



And his position in the realm of natural 

 history has been marked almost as well in 

 New York and elsewhere. So that when 

 we, of my own State, who have larger claim 

 to him perhaps than any others, take steps 



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