X 62 PIONEERS OF SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 



Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, and the " Great Pine Swamp " 

 in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. His book, in the 

 meantime, was going steadily on, and the first volume was 

 published in London in 1830. It contained one hundred plates, 

 representing ninety-nine species of birds, with every figure of 

 the colour and size of life. The whole work was completed 

 in four volumes, in 1839. It contained four hundred and 

 thirty-five plates, representing one thousand and sixty-five 

 distinct specimens of birds all, from the eagle to the hum- 

 ming-bird, of the size of life. Again, after three months at 

 home, spent in hunting and drawing, he visited England in 

 1830, where he found that he had been elected a Fellow of the 

 Royal Society of London, and on the 6th of May took his seat 

 in the great hall, and paid his entrance fee of fifty pounds, 

 " though I felt myself that I had not the qualifications to en- 

 title me to such an honour." He was shortly afterward joined 

 by his wife, who accompanied him in his journeys to get new 

 subscribers. In 1831, anticipating another tour of observation 

 and study in the South, he visited Washington, to get letters 

 of introduction to the commanders of frontier posts and offi- 

 cers along his route. All received him in the kindest manner. 

 The winter of i83i-*32 was spent in East Florida, in what Au- 

 dubon called a rather unprofitable expedition, but which fur- 

 nished the material for several striking " episodes," as his ac- 

 counts of the events have been designated. 



In his subsequent journey Audubon visited the coast of 

 Maine, accompanied by his family. According to Dr. Gris- 

 wold's account,* although no reference to the circumstance is 

 made in Mrs. Audubon's Life, the cholera then prevailing in 

 the country, he was taken sick in Boston and detained there 

 for some time. Aside from his illness, his experience in Bos- 

 ton must have been of the most grateful character, for he 

 wrote of it, "Although I have been happy in forming many 

 valuable friendships in various parts of the world, all dearly 

 cherished by me, the outpouring of kindness which I experi- 

 enced in Boston far exceeded all that I have ever met with." 

 With these kindnesses he associated the names of the men 

 who lent to the Boston of that time its peculiar lustre. Con- 

 tinuing his journey, he explored the forests of Maine and New 



* Prose Writers of America, p. 189. 



