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the physician who assisted at his 

 birth, i, 53; feeble health and 

 death of his mother, i, 56; birth 

 of his sister, Creole of Santo 

 Domingo, i, 56; taken with his sis- 

 ter to France, i, 57; his foster 

 mother and home at Nantes and 

 Coueron, i, 57; his adoption and 

 text of act, i, 59; suppression of 

 his mother's name, i, 60; his bap- 

 tism and text of act, i, 60; as- 

 sumed name of "La Forest," i, 61; 

 his signatures, i, 61, 63; his names 

 appearing in wills, i, 62; his dual 

 personality in a power of attor- 

 ney, i, 64; first date given in his 

 autobiography, i, 65; record in his 

 Ohio River journal, i, 66; his later 

 autobiographic sketch, i, 66-68; 

 traditional date of birth, i, 68; 

 myth concerning birth in Louisi- 

 ana, i, 68-72; account given by the 

 Rev. Gordon Bakewell, i, 69; in- 

 fluence of environment on charac- 

 ter, i, 90; his limited schooling, i, 

 91-93; the spur his ambition need- 

 ed, i, 91; experience in the French 

 navy, i, 92; early passion for na- 

 ture and for drawing, i, 93; as 

 truant, i, 94; his father intervenes 

 and takes him to Rochefort, i, 94; 

 return to Coueron, i, 96; baptized 

 in the Catholic Church, i, 96; first 

 return to the United States, i, 98; 

 illness at Morristown, i, 99; be- 

 friended by his father's American 

 agent, i, 99 ; his father's letter and 

 intentions in sending him to Amer- 

 ica, i, 100; his settlement at "Mill 

 Grove" farm, and period of stay 

 there, i, 101-103; begins his studies 

 of American bird-life, i, 106; 

 makes first "banding" experiment 

 on young of a wild bird, i, 107; 

 visit to "Fatland Ford," and 

 choice of a wife, i, 110; his gayety 

 and extravagance, i, 110; abstemi- 



ous habits in youth as regards food 

 and drink, i, 111; his account of 

 himself, i, 111; his accomplish- 

 ments described by a future broth- 

 er-in-law, i, 111; opposition to his 

 marriage, i, 116; Dacosta's griev- 

 ances, i, 116-119; quarrels with 

 Dacosta and returns to France, i, 

 123-125; voyage on the Hope, i, 

 126; life at Coueron and friend- 

 ship with D'Orbigny, i, 127; re- 

 ceives with Ferdinand Rozier a 

 power of attorney from his par- 

 ents, i, 131; attends the marriage 

 of his sister and signs the record, 

 i, 131 ; his relations with his broth- 

 er-in-law, i, 132; his partnership 

 with Rozier and second letter of 

 attorney, i, 132; returns, with Ro- 

 zier, to the United States, i, 134; 

 voyage of the Polly, and receipt 

 of Captain Sammis, i, 134; expe- 

 rience with British privateers, i, 

 134; boyhood home at Coueron, i, 

 136-145; his description of "La 

 Gerbetiere," i, 136; his abortive at- 

 tempt, with Rozier, to administer 

 the "Mill Grove" mine and farm, 

 i, 146-148; their "Articles of 

 Association," i, 146-148; ii, 344- 

 349; sale of remaining rights in 

 "Mill Grove" to Dacosta and Com- 

 pany, i, 148-149 ; receives, with Ro- 

 zier, new power of attorney, i, 

 153; enters business office of Ben- 

 jamin Bakewell in New York, i, 

 153; his associates and correspond- 

 ence with the elder Rozier, i, 153- 

 166; letters to his father, i, 159- 

 161, 163-164; his use of English 

 and French, i, 155; ii, 372-374; 

 plans a retail business with Rozier, 

 i, 157-158, 160-162, 165; dispatch 

 of live birds, and other objects of 

 natural history to France, i, 158- 

 159, 160, 162, 165-166; conflicting 

 references to "Mill Grove" ex- 



