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and mouiUain trails, collecting material for the third 

 volume, published in 1812. Later he explored New 

 England; and at Haverhill, New Hampshire, he was 

 arrested, as a British spy, a circumstance which prob- 

 ably hastened his death, at Philadelphia, August 23, 

 1813, when he had completed seven volumes of his 

 work. The eighth and ninth volumes were published 

 after his death by George Ord, the companion of his 

 travels and his labors. — John C. French. 



Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte 



On May 24, 1803, at Paris, France, the first son 

 of the Prince of Canino was born, and he was christen- 

 ed, Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, Prince 

 of Canino and Musignano. He had no inclination for 

 political life, preferring the more wholesome pursuits 

 of literature and science. He became a naturalist and 

 a writer on ornithology, continuing Alexander Wilson's 

 "Ornithology of America," in four volumes brought 

 out, from 1828 to 1833, at Philadelphia, where he liv- 

 ed many years. He died on July 29, 1857. So this 

 nephew of the great Napoleon Bonaparte, by residing 

 in America, was enabled to finish the great work that 

 Wilson and Ord had begun and left unfinished, be- 

 sides other important work, and he stimulated and en- 

 couraged Audobon to publish his drawings and notes 

 of America's great bird population. — John C. French. 



