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CHAPTER XXI 



DEBUT AS A NATURALIST 



PAOB 



Makes his bow at Philadelphia Is greeted with plaudits and cold water 

 Friendship of Harlan, Stilly, Bonaparte and Harris Hostility of 

 Ord, Lawson and other friends of Alexander Wilson A meeting 

 of academicians Visit to "Mill Grove" Exhibits drawings in 

 New York and becomes a member of the Lyceum At the Falls 

 of Niagara In a gale on Lake Erie Episode at Meadville Walk 

 to Pittsburgh Tour of Lakes Ontario and Champlain Decides to 

 take his drawings to Europe Descends the Ohio in a skiff 

 Stranded at Cincinnati Teaching at St. Francisville . . . .327 



CHAPTER XXII 



To EUROPE AND SUCCESS 



Audubon sails from New Orleans Life at sea Liverpool The Rath- 

 bones Exhibition of drawings an immediate success Personal ap- 

 pearance Painting habits resumed His pictures and methods 

 Manchester visited Plans for publication The Birds of America 

 Welcome at Edinburgh Lizars engraves the Turkey Cock In 

 the role of society's lion His exhibition described by a French 

 critic Honors of science and the arts Contributions to journals 

 excite criticism Aristocratic patrons Visit to Scott The Wild 

 Pigeon and the rattlesnake Letter to his wife Prospectus Jour- 

 ney to London 347 



CHAPTER XXIII 



AUDUBON IN LONDON 



Impressions of the metropolis A trunk full of letters Friendship of 

 Children Sir Thomas Lawrence Lizars stops work A family of 

 artists Robert Havell, Junior The Birds of America fly to Lon- 

 donThe Zoological Gallery Crisis in the naturalist's affairs- 

 Royal patronage Interview with Gallatin Interesting the Queen- 

 Desertion of patrons Painting to independence Personal habits 

 and tastes Enters the Linnaean Society The white-headed Eagle 

 Visit to the great universities Declines to write for magazines 

 Audubon-Swainson correspondence "Highfield Hall" near Tyt- 

 tenhanger In Paris with Swainson Glimpses of Cuvier His re- 

 port on The Birds of America Patronage of the French Govern- 

 ment and the Duke of Orleans Bonaparte the naturalist . . .377 



