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ulous.* I have long had a suspicion that Audubon had 

 taken the whole naturalist world into his confidence, in 

 many of his bird biographies, and that some of his facts 

 would sometime result in romances. The more I know 

 of him and his methods the more I am convinced that 

 this is true. But, in this case, a guest was made the 

 innocent victim of misplaced confidence in his host; 

 and the host in the role of a confidence man never 

 inspires faith. Men to whom Audubon told the tale, 

 attempting to justify it as a joke, have used the facts 

 to the detriment of the fair fame of Rafinesque.f 



FROM HENDERSON TO THE MISSISSIPPI. 



Rafinesque left Henderson and the home of Audubon 

 for a journey to the mouth of the Ohio, which point he 

 reached as the farthest point in all his western travels. 

 On his way he passed through New Harmony, Indiana, 

 which was then one of the great scientific centers of the 



New World. In that quiet town on the Lower Wabash 







*Vide Contributions to North American Ichthyology, I, p. 6, 1877. Also, 

 Rafinesque, by David Starr Jordan, in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. XXIX, 

 No. II, p. 217, June, 1886. 



tThe following are the names ol&quot; fishes bestowed upon the &quot;drawings 

 communicated by Mr. Audubon &quot; : Perca nigropunctata, Aplocentrus calliops, 

 Pogostoma leucops, Catostomus anisopturus, Catosfomus niger, Catostomus 

 fasciolaris, Catostomus (?) megastomus, Pylodictis limosus, Accipenser macros- 

 tomus, Dinectus truncatus. 



