94 The Wilson Bulletin" — No. 71. 



bone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature ; otherwise the 

 few sets of this pseudo-edition sold at retail from his book- 

 store would scarcely have attracted attention outside of his 

 immediate neighborhood. The price of the work does not 

 appear and it received no reviews. 



To my list of portraits I would append a photographic re- 

 production of the Gordon painting or the original picture in 

 the possession of Wilson's sister. 



Chamber's British Science — Biographies < Natural History by FI. 

 Allj-n Nicholson, M.D., D.Sc, (1886) ; 122, half length. 



The Public Ledger of Philadelphia, ALay 7, 1890, p. 3. con- 

 tains a notice by Thompson Westcott of the presentation by Air. 

 James N. Stone to the Academy of Natural Sciences, of some 

 of Wilson's letters to Bartram, Bradford and Abbott, all of 

 wdiich have since been published ; a hitherto unpublished letter 

 of Waterton's to Ord, chiefly referring to an incident on the 

 Alediterranean in which it appears Prince Charles Bonaparte 

 saved the writer from a watery grave. Westcott also an- 

 nounces the receipt from the same source, of the pencil 

 drawing of Wilson " probably by Joseph B. Ord." The auth- 

 orship of the portrait cannot be ascertained, however. It is 

 not at all probable that the son of George Ord was the artist. 

 Ord was unmarried until some time after Wilson's death and 

 it is not until 1838 that he writes from England that his son 

 has entered the atelier of Barron Gres as a student of painting. 

 Had the elder Ord possessed the talent for drawing the human 

 countenance, it would certainly be like him to leave it unsigned. 

 Aliss Alalvina Lawson makes mention of a copy in her pos- 

 session of a profile, cut out of pai^cr in the old style, taken 

 from the one in Peak's museum.^ This silhouette may or may 

 not be the original, or an outline copy of the drawing. 



Neither is the exact date of the Barralet portrait positively 

 known. Miss Lawson could not be certain, Init she thought 

 the drawing was made after Wilson's death, and thin, as he 

 always was, of course death from a wasting disease reduced 

 him tcrril)ly. Tier father said the jxjrtrait did not do Wilson 

 ' Malvina Lawson MS. 



