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some English Snipes ^ within a few days, and that they bred 

 in the marshes about him." And also: "July 19th. 

 Young Harris, God bless him, looked at the drawings I 

 had for sale, and said he would take them all, at my prices. 

 I would have kissed him, but that it is not the custom in 

 this icy city." 



Other friends were made here, almost as valuable as Mr. 

 Harris, though not as well loved, for these two were truly 

 congenial souls, who never wearied of each other, and 

 between whom there was never a shadow of difference. 

 Thomas Sully, the artist, Dr. Richard Harlan,^ Reuben 



don's Magazine of Natural History," vi. 1833, pp. 215-218, and vii., 1S34, 

 pp. 66-74. Audubon was warmly defended by his son Victor in the same 

 magazine, vi. 1833, p. 369, and at greater length by " R. 15.," ibid., pp. 369- 

 372. Dr. Coues characterizes Waterton's attack as "flippant and super- 

 cilious animadversion," in " Birds of the Colorado Valley," 1S7S, p. 622. 



The present is hardly the occasion to bring up the countless reviews and 

 notices of Audubon's published life-work ; but a few references I have at 

 hand may be given. One of the earliest, if not the first, appeared in the 

 "Edinburgh Journal of Science," vi. p. 184 (1S27). In 1828, Audubon him- 

 self published "An Account of the Method of Drawing Birds," etc., in the 

 same Journal, viii., pp. 48-54. The " Report of a Committee appointed 

 by the Lyceum of Natural History of New York to examine the splendid 

 work of Mr. Audubon," etc., appeared in " Silliman's Joumal,"xvi., 1829, pp. 

 353. 354- H's friend William Swainson puljjished some highly commendatory 

 and justly appreciative articles on the same sul)ject in " Loudon's Magazine," 

 i., 1S29, pp. 43-52, and in the " Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal," x., 

 'S31, pp. l)\l-y:fl, under the pseudonym " Ornithophilus." Another anony- 

 mous review, higiily laudatory, appeared in the same Journal, xviii., 1834, pp. 

 131-144. Dr. John Bachman defended the truthfulness of Audubon's draw- 

 ings in the "Journal of the Boston Society of Natural History," i. 1834, pp. 

 15-31. One of the most extended notices appeared anonymously in the 

 ''North American Review," July, 1835, pp. i94-2_<- ; and another signed " B," 

 in "Loudon's Magazine," viii., 1835, pp. 184-190. In (Jermany, " Isis von 

 Oken" contained others, xxx., 1S37, pp. 922-928, xxxv., 1842, pp. 157, 158; 

 and xxxvii., iS.h, pp. 713-718. " Silliman's Journal" again reviewed the 

 work in xlii., 1S42, pp. 130-136. — E. C. 



' That is the sp jcies now known as Wilson's Snipe, GiilUnago delicata. 



° Dr. Richard 1 larlan is the author of the well-known " Fauna Americana," 

 8vo, Philadelphia, 1825, and of many scientific papers. Audubon dedicated 

 to him the Black Warrior, FaUo harlani, a large, dark hawk of the genus 

 l^nUo, shot at St. Francisville, La., Nov. 18, 1829. 



