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1837 



Spring. Starts overland with Edward Harris and John W. 

 Audubon for New Orleans ; there meets the revenue cutter 

 Campbell, and in her and her tender, the Crusader, the 

 party proceeds as far as Galveston, Texas ; visits President 

 Sam Houston. 



May 18. Leaves for New Orleans, and on June 8 reaches 

 Charleston. John Woodhouse Audubon is married to 

 Bachman's eldest daughter, Maria Rebecca. 



To Washington, and meets President Martin Van Buren. 



July 16. Sails with his son and daughter-in-law on the packet 

 England from New York ; reaches Liverpool on August 2d, 

 and on the 7th is in London. 



The panic of this year causes loss of many subscribers, but 

 Audubon decides to extend The Birds of America to 87 

 parts, in order to admit every new American bird discov- 

 ered up to that time. 



1838 



June 20. Eighty-seventh part of The Birds of America pub- 

 lished, thus completing the fourth volume and concluding 

 the work, which was begun at Edinburgh in the autumn of 

 1826. 



Summer. By way of a holiday celebration tours the High- 

 lands of Scotland with his family and William MacGilli- 

 vray. 



Autumn. To Edinburgh, where, with the assistance of Mac- 

 Gillivray, the fourth volume of his Biography is issued in 

 November. 



1839 



May. Fifth and concluding volume of the Ornithological Bi- 

 ography is published at Edinburgh. A Synopsis of the 

 Birds of North America, which immediately follows, brings 

 his European life and labors to a close. 



