Recently imhlished Ornithological Works. 517 



"Willson Peale, the artist of the revolutionary period, and 

 later on the founder of the jNIuseum which afterwards bore 

 his name. Titian, who was born in 1800, was the naturalist 

 of the family and began his extensive travels as a collector at 

 the early age of 17, when he accompanied William McClure, 

 Thomas Say, and George Ord on a trip to Georgia and 

 Florida, the latter still a Spanish possession. Two years 

 later he accompanied Say as assistant zoologist on Major 

 Loughs expedition to the Rocky Mountains, when Pikers 

 Peak was ascended for the first time, and whence large col- 

 lections of birds and other natural history objects were 

 brought back. His longest expedition was as naturalist to 

 tlie United States Exploring Expedition under Capt. Chas. 

 Wilkes, which started in 1838 and was gone about four 

 years. Peale's report on the Mammals and Birds of this 

 expedition was issued in 1848, but without the plates which 

 he had prepared for it. This is one of the rarest of 

 scientific works. Only about 90 copies were issued by the 

 U.S. Government, the remainder having been destroyed by 

 fire. What happened subsequently is not accurately known, 

 but eventually John Cassin prepared a new report, published 

 in 1852, with Peale's original drawings. It is said that 

 Peale considered himself badly used in the matter. 



From 1818 till 1873 Peale had a post in the Patent Office 

 at Washington. After this he returned to Philadelphia, 

 where he occupied rooms at the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, and spent his time completing the manuscript and 

 plates of a work on butterflies based on his collection. . He 

 died of pneumonia on 13 March, 1885. Mr. Stone's article 

 is full of interest, and is embellished with a photogravure 

 reproduction of a portrait. 



The other articles in ' Cassinia' are of more local interest, 

 and include a pleasant account of a summer trip to Pocono 

 Lake in the Allegheny Mts., in search of Warblers' nests, 

 illustrated with photographs of the nest of an Alder Fly- 

 catcher and of a Yellow-billed Flycatchei- by Mr. J. F. Street. 

 A calculation of the percentage of clutches raised to maturity 

 out of the number of those examined in the neighbourhood 



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