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each a branch or spray of some tree or plant. Five plates formed 

 a "part" and there was no text save the name of the bird and 

 plant. 



Audubon made friends everywhere as he had done in America 

 and there was wide-spread interest in the success of his publica- 

 tion as well as wonder at his undertaking such an enormous task. 



He says, "My success in Edinburgh borders on the miraculous. 

 I am feted, feasted, elected honorary member of societies, making 

 money by my exhibition and my paintings. It is Mr. Audubon 

 here and Mr. Audubon there and I can only hope that Mr. Audu- 

 bon will not be made a conceited fool at last." He met all the 

 prominent scientific men of England and Scotland as well as many 

 other celebrities, such as Sir Walter Scott and Sir Thomas Law- 

 rence, while during a brief canvassing trip to France in 1828 he 

 made the acquaintance of Cuvier, Geoffrey St.-Hilaire and many 

 other savants as well as the Due d' Orleans. 



While admirers were plentiful, subscribers as usual were scarce; 

 hard to get and harder still to keep, and the ornithologist was 

 continually reduced to such straits that he was forced to paint 

 pictures and sell them at the shops in order to meet the cost of his 

 publication. 



Returning to America in the spring of 1829 he spent a year in 

 collecting and painting such birds as he had not already procured, 

 passing most of his time in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Upon 

 the approach of winter he joined his wife in Louisiana and the 

 following April sailed with her for England. 



He returned to America twice more during the publication of 

 the work to procure additional material, one visit lasting from 

 August, 1831, to April, 1834, and the other from July, 1836, to 

 the following summer. 



During the first period he visited Florida, New Brunswick and 

 Labrador and spent considerable time with his friend Rev. John 

 Bachman at Charleston, S. C., whom he first met in October, 1831, 

 and who later became related through the marriage of his daughters 

 to Audubon's sons. 



On his second trip besides stopping with Bachman he visited 



