JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 71 



engravings are truly beautiful 5 some of 

 them have been coloured, and are now on 

 exhibition. 7 



Audubon 7 s journal, kept during his 

 stay in Edinburgh, is copious, graphic, 

 and entertaining. It is a mirror of 

 everything he saw and felt. 



Among others he met George Combe, 

 the phrenologist, author of the once 

 famous Constitution of Man, and he sub- 

 mitted to having his head " looked at. 7 ' 

 The examiner said : ' ' There cannot exist 

 a moment of doubt that this gentleman 

 is a painter, colourist, and compositor, 

 and, I would add, an amiable though 

 quick tempered man. 77 



Audubon was invited to the annual 

 feast given by the Antiquarian Society 

 at the Waterloo Hotel, at which Lord 

 Elgin presided. After the health of 

 many others had been drunk, Audubon 7 s 

 was proposed by Skene, a Scottish his- 

 torian. " Whilst he was engaged in a 

 handsome panegyric, the perspiration 



