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" In England everything had gone well, and although 

 my list of subscribers had not increased, it had not much 

 diminished. During my absence I had been elected a 

 fellow of the Royal Society of London, for which I be- 

 lieve I am indebted to Lord Stanley and J. S. Children, 

 Esq., of the British Museum, and on the sixth of May I 

 took my seat in the great hall, and paid my entrance fee 

 of fifty pounds, though I felt myself that I had not the 

 qualifications to entitle me to such an honor." 



Soon after his arrival in England, he found that sub- 

 scribers did not pay up as regularly as he expected, and 

 money being needed to push forward the engraving of 

 the " Birds of America," he again resorted to his pencil 

 and brush, and painted birds and quadrupeds, for all of 

 which he found a ready sale at satisfactory prices. Be- 

 sides this he was occupied in filling up the ground-woik 

 of many of his drawings, and introducing plants and trees 

 which had at first been given only in outline. His stay 

 at London, however, was not long. Mrs. Audubon having 

 joined him there after a few weeks, not liking a residence 

 in the city, travelled with him on his journeys to obtain 

 new subscribers. 



" We visited Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, York, 

 Hull, Scarborough, Whitby, Newcastle, and received 

 several subscriptions at the latter place ; and my former 

 friends, Mr. Adamson and the Rev. Mr. Turner, were 

 quite kind to us, as also was the family of the Earl of 

 Ravensworth. On our way to Edinburgh we stopped a 

 few days and were hospitably entertained at Twisel 

 House, by Mr. Selby. 



'■^ October IT,, 1830. We reached Edinburgh safely, 

 and took lodgings at my old boarding-house, with Mrs. 

 Dickie, where we were made very comfortable." 



At this period Audubon began to prepare his "Or- 

 nithological Biography of the Birds of America," a work 



