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Audubon evidently believed that this printed acknowl- 

 edgment was just; MacGillivray was as plainly satisfied, 

 so that complaints which have been made against the 

 naturalist on this score seem to have been rather ground- 

 less. It might be noticed that bookmaking at that time 

 was regarded as more of a trade than at present; as 

 Sir Walter Besant remarks, a traveler would often give 

 his notes to a bookseller, who in turn would hand them 

 over to a literary hack to be cast into suitable form. 



AUDUBON'S INSCRIPTION IN THE COPY OF THE "ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY" 

 PRESENTED TO WILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY 



A fine token of the friendship which existed between 

 these two men was discovered in the summer of 1903 in 

 a London bookshop, where it was found reflected in the 

 pages of a handsomely bound copy of Audubon's Biog- 

 raphy o/ Birds; on the title pages were inscribed the 

 autographs of William MacGillivray, while on the first 

 page of the introduction to the first volume the hand of 

 Audubon had written this dedication: 



These volumes are presented to 

 William MacGillivray with sentiments 

 of the highest esteem and best wishes by 

 his truly and sincerely attached friend 



JOHN J. AUDUBON 

 Edinburgh July 1 t 1839. 



