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name "to that Institution which thought me unworthy 

 to be a member . . , v There is no malice in my heart," 

 he continued, "and I wish no return or acknowledgment 

 from them. I am now determined never to be a mem- 

 ber of that Philadelphia Society." Let it be noted, 

 however, that Audubon was elected to membership in 

 the American Philosophical Society, when their recog- 

 nition could no longer be withheld and when mutual 

 animosities had died down. Three days later he re- 

 corded that all of his drawings had been taken from 

 the walls of the Royal Institution, where they had been 

 on exhibition a month, and that he was intending to 

 present to the Society his large canvas of the Wild Tur- 

 keys, for which Galley, the picture dealer, had offered 

 him a hundred guineas on the previous day. 14 



Among Audubon's early patrons were Lord and 

 Lady Morton, and more than once he was invited to 

 visit them in their beautiful country seat of "D alma- 

 hoy," where a large, square, half-Gothic building, 

 crowned with turrets and adorned with all the signs 

 of heraldry, overlooked a beautiful landscape to Edin- 

 burgh, marked by its famous castle, seen in miniature 

 on the horizon, eight miles away. Being somewhat ap- 

 prehensive of meeting the former Chamberlain to the 

 late Queen Charlotte, Audubon had imagined the Earl 



14 Audubon's copy of this oil painting remained in the possession of 

 his family until a few years ago, when it was sold for a much greater 

 amount. It now adorns the beautiful ornithological museum of Mr. John 

 E. Thayer, at South Lancaster, Massachusetts; it represents a cock and hen 

 turkey in life size, adapted from the subjects of his two most famous 

 plates, and is in an admirable state of preservation. Mr. Thayer's collec- 

 tion also embraces Audubon's large canvas of the Black Cocks, from the 

 Edward Harris estate, a charming study of the Hen Turkey, with land- 

 scape setting, and, also in oils, several smaller panels of Flickers and 

 Passenger Pigeons, which, if not the work of the naturalist, are copies after 

 his originals, and possibly made by Joseph B. Kidd. (See Vol. I, p. 446; and 

 for a notice of Mr. Thayer's other Audubonian drawings, Vol. II, p. 227, and 

 Appendix II.) 



