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Charleston as Buzzards, that business would soon be also set 

 at rest, but for this, however, time is required, and the time 

 I think will come. The experiments we are making will be 

 repeated in the presence of the faculty of this city, 29 and their 

 Certificates attached to the whole, and immediately published 

 in the Annals of the Philosophical Society of Phila. 30 those 

 of the Lyceum of New York. A copy will be sent to be read at 

 the Linnean, or Royal Society of London, and Royal Insti- 

 tute of France; then let those laugh who win. We have at- 

 tracted Turkey Buzzards with pieces of fresh beef, not more 

 than an inch square, and we have seen others pass unnoticed 

 the body of a hare or fowl within 20 steps. We have now 3 fine 

 birds of this species to experiment upon, and their olfactory 

 nerves will be examined by the faculty here, where there are 

 some highly talented men. 



Our friend Bachman has written a very fine paper for 

 London's Mag. 31 which will be forwarded to you in a few days 

 by duplicate, and which I wish you to give to our friend J. G. 

 Children, and ask him to have it read at the R. and L. Socie- 

 ties, and inserted in the above mentioned Mag. afterwards. 

 We hope all this will be accomplished by the 1 st. March next. 



Now to other subjects. We are deeply at work. John has 

 drawn a few Birds, as good as any I ever made, and in a few 

 months I hope to give this department of my duty up to him 



29 For an account of this discussion see Chapter XXVIII, where the 

 memorial drawn up and signed by the faculty of the Medical College of 

 South Carolina is reproduced. 



30 When in New York, awaiting the sailing of his vessel, in April, 

 1834, Audubon referred to Bachman's paper on the Turkey Buzzard in 

 writing to Miss Maria Martin, as follows: "At Phila., Mr. Lee and Doer. 

 Hays managed to have it not read at Philosoph. Socy, but the Lyceum 

 of New York, after reading it, have sent it to Professor Silliman, in whose 

 Journal it will appear. John Bachman may .consider himself a member 

 of the Lyceum of New York, and 'mayhap,' a fellow of the Linnean 

 Society of London." Bachman's paper was actually published in the 

 Journal of the Boston Society of Natural History for 1834; see Bibliog- 

 raphy, No. 125. 



31 This paper, entitled "Remarks in Defense of [Mr. Audubon] the 

 author of the Birds of America," was published in volume vii of London's 

 Magazine of Natural History for 1834, and is dated "Charleston, Dec. 31, 

 1833"; see Bibliography, No. 124. 



