"s'oi 1 Shufeldt and Audubon, Audubonia. •? i -? 



because many of my birds which are common to both countries 

 will be published before his 2d vol., can now possibly be ; but as 

 soon as I told him that I had already said in my introduction, 

 that the anatomical structure was declared to be his, he was 

 much pleased and began on the instant. 



"Today is very dismal, and it will rain probably until night; 

 I wish we had here some of the warm weather of which dearest 

 Mamma speaks. I have had but one walk to Arthur's Seat, but 

 now and then I stroll to the meadows which are close to me, 

 and now look well. — From the window of my sitting room I 

 overlook the garden of Mr. Frazer our printer, and now and 

 then speak to him there, I have not yet however visited him. — 

 I will recollect the Queen's farthing when next I see Professor 

 Wilson, but doubt much if he will recollect the least idea of it. 

 Has Charley written or said anything to Victor about the review 

 of the work ; remember me to Healey.— 



"I suppose that the crown of England sits very quietly down, 

 and that all was very superfine. I have not so much as seen a 

 paper since I left you. 



"God bless you all, dearest friends, take good care of Mamma 

 and Maria. 



"Ever your firmly attached father and friend 



"J. J. Audubon. 

 "No. 7 Archibald Place, 

 Z,auriston." 



Up to the present time there has been no personal letter of 

 Audubon's published which so clearly shows, as this one does, 

 the precise relations between Macgillivray and himself. 

 Although it testifies to the fact that the former is entirely 

 responsible for the anatomical descriptions of 'The Birds of 

 America,' it likewise goes to show that Audubon took a lively 

 and personal interest in a great many of those dissections, and, 

 in all probability, was often at Macgillivray's side while they 

 were being made, — not as a mere looker-on, but to follow him 

 with that keen intelligence during their progress which charac- 

 terized his every undertaking in the science he loved so well, 

 and in which he has made a name as enduring as the great 

 truths in the foundation upon which modern ornithology itself is 

 reared. 



