xl AUDUBON THE NATURALIST 



1847 

 Audubon's powers begin to weaken and rapidly fail. 



1848 



February 8. John W. Audubon joins a California company 

 organized by Colonel James Watson Webb, and starts 

 for the gold fields, but his party meets disaster in the 

 valley of the Rio Grande; he leads a remnant to their 

 destination and returns in the following year. 



1851 



January 27. Jean Jacques Fougere Audubon dies at "Min- 

 nie's Land," before completing his sixty-sixth year. 



