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public institutions and his friends, among whom he men- 

 tions Mr. Everett, Dr. Bowditch, Dr. Gould, and Mr. 



David, "where I found Maria D , now Mrs. Motley, 



as handsome as ever, and her husband not far short of 

 seven feet high." 



^^ September 20. Went to the market and bought a 

 fine pigeon hawk which is now found in Massachusetts, 

 for two cents. Visited Roxbury with Thomas Brewer, a 

 young man of much ornithological taste, to see his col- 

 lection of skins and eggs : found his mother and family 

 very kind and obliging, and received from him seven 

 eggs of such species as I have not. Returned and visited 

 David Eckley, the great salmon fisher : promised to 

 breakfast with him to-morrow. 



" Septefnber 21. Went to market and bought a female 

 blue teal for ten cents. Called on Dr. Storer, and 

 heard that our learned friend Thomas Nuttall had just 

 returned from California. I sent Mr. Brewer after him, 

 and waited with impatience for a sight of the great travel- 

 ler, whom we admired so much when we were in this 

 line city. In he came, Lucy, the very same Thomas Nut- 

 tall, and in a few minutes we discussed a considerable 

 portion of his travels, adventures, and happy return to 

 this land of happiness. He promised to obtain me dupli- 

 cates of all the species he had brought for the Academy 

 at Philadelpliia, and to breakfast with us to-morrow, and 

 we parted as we have before, friends, bent on the promo- 

 tion of the science we study. 



^^ September 22. This has been a day of days v/ith 

 me ; Nuttall breakfasted with us, and related much of his 

 journey on the Pacific, and presented me with five new 

 species of birds obtained by himself, and which are named 

 after him. One of Dr. Shattuck's students drove me in 

 the doctor's gig to call on Governor Everett, who received 

 me as kindly as ever ; and then to the house of Presi- 



