drawing" school. The nmseiini authorities promised to pay him 

 well but did not keep their promise. 



The Naturalist Removes to New Orleans. 



Finally the naturalist went to New Orleans. As Maria R. Au- 

 dubon tells us "He had now a great number of drawings, and the 

 idea of publishing these had suggested itself to both him and his 

 wife." 



Audubon was separated from his family for nearly a year being- 

 kept from sending for his wife and children because of the fear of 

 yellow fever. He took a position as a tutor in the family of Mrs. 

 Charles Percy of Bayou Sara. "Here the beloved Louisiana whose 

 praises he never wearied of singing, whose magnolia woods were 

 more to him than palaces, wdiose swamps were store houses of 

 treasures, he stayed till autumn, when all fear of yellow fever being 

 over, he sent for his wife and son." 



In Philadelphia and New York. 



Poverty was the part of the Audubons while in the far south, 

 but the naturalist kept up his hope and his cheer. March, 1824, 

 found Audubon in Philadelphia where his drawings perhaps for 

 the first time drew an attention which afterwards broadened and 

 which finally led to the recognition which has lasted through the 

 years. For a year he traveled through the woods and fields of 

 New York and the country further west about the Great Takes. 

 Thence again he went to New Orleans intending from there to go 

 to England. He had made in various w'ays, one of which was 

 the teaching of dancing, about $2,000 and with this and with 

 some of the savings of his wife, money which she had put aside 

 to forward the journey to England from which much was expected, 

 he started for the other side of the water 



Audubon's Visit to England. 



It is impossible to give in detail the story of Audubon's visit to 

 England. There he received encouragement for his work and recog- 

 nition of his scientific researches. He published his great monu- 

 mental work, the "Birds of America" in four Elephant folio vol- 

 umes, representing 435 colored plates in life size figures. This 

 undertaking covered the period of eleven years (1827-1838). After 

 becoming associated with William MacGillivray, the celebrated 

 scotch ornithologist and anatomist, the "Ornithological Biography" 

 to accompany the plates, was published in five volumes (1831-39). 

 Mrs. Audubon who was with her husband rewrote the entire manu- 

 script that it might be sent to America. 



