JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 85 

 tickled Audubon greatly to find that the 

 Frenchman at the office in Calais, who 

 had never seen him, had described his 

 complexion in his passport as copper red, 

 because he was an American, all Ameri- 

 cans suggesting aborigines. In Paris they 

 early went to call upon Baron Cuvier. 

 They were told that he was too busy to be 

 seen : " Being determined to look at the 

 Great Man, we waited, knocked again, 

 and with a certain degree of firmness, 

 sent in our names. The messenger re- 

 turned, bowed, and led the way up 

 stairs, where in a minute Monsieur le 

 Baron, like an excellent good man, came 

 to us. He had heard much of my friend 

 Swainson, and greeted him as he de- 

 serves to be greeted j he was polite and 

 kind to me, though my name had never 

 made its way to his ears. I looked at 

 him and here follows the result : Age 

 about sixty-five ; size corpulent, five feet 

 five English measure j head large, face 

 wrinkled and brownish ; eyes grey, brill- 



