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and Edward Harris, both of whom became Hfc-long friends, 

 especially Mr. Harris, with whom he corresponded fre- 

 quently when they were separated, and with whom he 

 made many journeys, the most prolonged and important 

 being that to the Yellowstone in 1843. To copy again: 

 "April 10, 1824. I was introduced to the son of L,ucien 

 Bonaparte, nephew of Napoleon, a great ornithologist, I 

 was told. He remained two hours, went out, and returned 

 with two Italian gentlemen, and their comments made me 

 very contented." That evening he was taken to the Phil- 

 osophical Academy^ where the drawings were greatly 

 admired, and their author says : " / do not think much of 

 them except when in the very act of drawing them." At 

 this meeting Mr. George Ord met Audubon and objected 

 strongly to the birds and plants being drawn together, 

 " but spoke well of them otherwise." Mr. Ord was one-of 

 those (of the very few, I might say) who disliked the 

 naturalist from first to last,^ who was perhaps, his bitterest 

 enemy. In later years Dr. John Bachman resented his 

 conduct, and wrote a very trenchant reply ^ to one of Mr. 

 Ord's published articles about Audubon ; but there is no 

 word of anger anywhere in the letters or journals, only of 

 regret or pain.* 



Of Mr. Harris we find this: "July 12, 1824. I drew for 

 Mr. Fairman a small grouse to be put on a bank-note be- 

 longing to the State of New-Jersey ; this procured me the 

 acquaintance of a young man named Edward Harris of 

 Moorestown, an ornithologist, who told me he had seen 



^ Probably the Academy of Natural Sciences. 



"^ Orel had edited the posthumous vols. viii. and ix. of " Wilson's Orni- 

 thology," which appeared in 1814; and in 1824 was engaged upon that edition 

 of Wilson which was published in 3 vols. 8vo, in 1828-29, with a folio atlas 

 of 76 plates. This is probably enough to account for his attitude toward 

 Audubon. — E. C. 



* " DefeT'ce of Audubon," by John Bachman. " Bucks Co. Intelligencer," 

 183s, and other papers. 



* Almost the only other enemy Audubon appears to have ever had in 

 public print was Charles Waterton, who vehemently assailed him in " Lou- 



