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out on the 20th of September, he traveled by the steamer 

 Massachusetts and the Providence Railroad, paying 

 seven dollars fare, "which included supper and break- 

 fast"; the sail up Providence Bay in early morning 

 was like a "fairy dream," and the locomotive in waiting 

 then pulled the passengers from "Providence to Boston 

 at the rate of fifteen miles an hour." We arrived, said 

 he, at four in the afternoon: "a cart took my trunk, 

 and placing myself by the side of the owner, we drove 

 to the house of my friend, Dr. George C. Shattuck." 



On the day after his arrival, Audubon visited Thom- 

 as M. Brewer, then a young ornithologist living at Rox- 

 bury, to examine his collection of bird skins and eggs, 

 and upon his return called on David Eckley, "the great 

 salmon fisher," to whom he later presented a copy of his 

 folio plates of The Birds of America. 4 ' Brewer, who 

 later became a physician and distinguished ornitholo- 

 gist, for many years was one of Audubon's valued cor- 

 respondents and supplied him with much interesting 

 material. On the following day Audubon met Thomas 

 Nuttall, 5 who at once promised him duplicates of all the 

 new birds which he had brought from the West. Colonel 

 Thomas H. Perkins, an early subscriber, Edward Ever- 

 ett, who had befriended him in Washington, and who in 

 1836 became Governor of Massachusetts, Josiah Quin- 

 cy, president of Harvard College, Dr. Bowditch, and 



*See Note, Vol. II, p. 7. 



Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859), a native of Yorkshire, was brought up 

 a printer; in 1807 he emigrated to the United States, and became noted for 

 his wide botanical explorations, for his Journal of Travels in the Arkansas 

 Territory in 1819, and for his excellent Manual of the Ornithology of the 

 United States and Canada (1833-1834), which has had several editions. 

 From 1822 to 1834 he was professor of Natural History and curator of 

 the Botanical Gardens at Harvard University; in 1834 he crossed the 

 Rocky Mountains along the sources of the Platte, explored Oregon and 

 Upper California, and visited the Sandwich Islands. He returned to 

 England, where he had inherited property, in 1842, and died at St. Helen's, 

 Lancashire, September 10, 1859. 



