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My 8th No. is just out. The 9th & 10th are engraving. I 

 have sent word to my son to land [?] & bring some skins for 

 you & perhaps you may have a rare assortment bye and bye. 

 I hope your Lady and dear Children are all quite well Pray re- 

 member me kindly to them. 1 wish to name a bird after 



you in the 1st No. of 1829 & wish you to choose a name. 

 Believe yours ever and truly obliged 



J. J. AUDUBON 

 79 Newman Street, 

 Oxford Street. 



By the 9th of August eight pictures had been be- 

 gun, but none was finished, and the number of his sub- 

 scribers had fallen to seventy. At about this time Cap- 

 tain Basil Hall 18 returned from his journey through 

 the United States, and brought direct news from Victor 

 Audubon, who was then at Louisville, from Dr. Richard 

 Harlan and Thomas Sully, to all of whom the natural- 

 ist's letters had been delivered the previous year. 

 Towards the end of the month Audubon received the 

 following note from the secretary of the Zoological So- 

 ciety, N. A. Vigors, who was also anxious to obtain 

 from him an article for his Journal: 



N. A. Vigors to Audubon 



BRUTER Or 



Aug. 23, 1828. 



MY DEAR SIR: 



I hope you do not forget your promise of giving us a 

 paper for the Zoological Journal. We should be much grati- 

 fied by having your name with us : and, if possible, should wish 

 to have whatever you may favour us with within the next ten 

 days. I have been but a few hours in town, and shall leave 

 town again tomorrow for a few days, or I should have called 



18 See Note, Vol. I, p. 364. 



