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INDEX 



Provost, Henry Augustin, i, 105-106, 

 122. 



Quadrupeds of North America, i, 

 17; Bachman to Audubon on, ii, 

 208; Audubon to Brewer on, ii, 

 209; on Bachman's cooperation in, 

 ii, 210; Audubon to Baird on, ii, 

 219-221, 222, 226-22T, 233; Audu- 

 bon to Parkman, ii, 227; to W. O. 

 Ayres, ii, 229; Parke Godwin on, 

 ii, 236; editions of, ii, 261; Bach- 

 man on text of, ii, 261-263, 269- 

 272, 281-283; Baird on materials 

 for, ii, 263, 264, 274, 276-277, 278; 

 Audubon on letterpress of, ii, 265; 

 Harris as mediator in difficulties 

 with letterpress of, ii, 269; coop- 

 eration of authors in, ii, 273; sub- 

 scribers to, ii, 274; Louis Agassiz 

 on, ii, 274; title of text of, ii, 275; 

 English edition of first volume of 

 text of, ii, 280; dedication copy of 

 first volume of text of, ii, 280; J. 

 E. Gray on, ii, 281; manuscript of 

 text of, ii, 283; Illustrations of, ii, 

 285; in octavo, ii, 293. 



Quebec, Audubon's visit and success 

 in, ii, 244. 



Queen, Jean Audubon's fight in, i, 35. 



Queen Charlotte (La Reine Char- 

 lotte), Captain Jean Audubon's 

 command of, at Yorktown, i, 34. 



Quinarianism, curious tenets and ad- 

 vocacy of, ii, 94, 95, 104, 109, 114, 

 116, 117. 



Quincy, Josiah, ii, 29, 150. 



Rabin, Mile., birth of son of, i, 52; 

 as characterized by Jean Audubon, 

 i, 52; record of physician of, i, 

 53; her feeble health and death, i, 

 56; suppression of her name, i, 60; 

 early and assumed names of her 

 son, i, 62; as characterized by her 

 son, i, 63, 66; fictitious account of 

 death of, i, 67. 



Rabin, Jean, i, 53, 57, 61, 62, 63, 64, 

 263, 264; ii, 361, 362, 364. See Jean 

 Jacques Fougere Audubon. 



Rafmesque, Constantine Samuel 

 (Schmaltz), i, 171; his travels, 

 writings and career, i, 285-300; 

 Audubon on, i, 285; and the bats, 

 i, 286; his early life and precocity, 

 i, 287; his bibliography, i, 287; 

 visit to America, i, 288; life in 

 Sicily, i, 288; marriage and embit- 

 terment, i, 289; return to America 

 and shipwreck, i, 290; visits Audu- 

 bon, i, 290; his "scarlet-headed 

 swallow" and fictitious fishes, i, 

 291; his Ichthyology of the Ohio 

 River and "Devil-Jack Diamond- 

 fish," i, 292; at Transylvania Uni- 

 versity, i, 294; originality and in- 

 dependence, i, 295; impractical 

 projects and inventions, i, 295-296, 

 298; troubles at Lexington and re- 

 turn to Philadelphia, i, 296; his 

 mania for new species, i, 296; his 

 letters, i, 297; his multifarious 

 writings, final struggles and death, 

 i, 297-299 ; his ardor and fatal ver- 

 satility, i, 299; contemporary no- 

 tice of, i, 333. 



"Rafinesquiana," i, 287. 



Rambler, i, 7. 



Ramsden, George, Edward Holden 

 to, i, 351. 



Rankin, Dr. Adam, i, 238, 242; his 

 "Meadow Brook Farm," i, 248; 

 birth of John Woodhouse Audu- 

 bon at home of, i, 248. 



Rankin, William, i, 248. 



Rathbone, Richard, introduction of 

 Audubon to, i, 352. 



Rathbone, William, Sr., assistance 

 rendered Audubon by, i, 352. 



Rathbone, Mrs. William, Sr., at 

 "Greenbank," i, 353; gift to Au- 

 dubon by, i, 355. 



Rathbone, William, Jr., i, 352. 



Rattlesnake, Audubon's account of 



