6 PROCEEDINGS OP THE 



His mother was the second wife of Charles Willson Peale, 

 Elizabeth de Peyster, a descendant of Johannes de Peyster, who 

 came over to New Amsterdam about 1645. Titian was named 

 after his half-brother who had died at the age of eighteen after 

 giving great promise as a naturalist. He was educated at Ger- 

 mantown and Montgomery County schools, though it seems 

 probable that he derived quite as much inspiration and knowl- 

 edge from the great museum and its founder as from his school- 

 teachers. At the age of seventeen he was elected a member of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences and in the autumn of the 

 same year was one of a party to visit the Sea Islands and adja- 

 cent coast of Georgia and east Florida. His associates were 

 William McClure, Thomas Say and George Ord. 



Say, describing this trip in a letter to Rev. John F. Mels- 

 heimer* under date of June 10, 1818, says: "I accompanied 

 the president of our Academy, Mr. Wm. McClure (a gentleman 

 well known in Europe and America for science and beneficence) 

 in his carriage by easy journies as far as Charleston ; we then 

 took the steamboat to Savannah and sent on the carriage by 

 land. At Savannah we met our companions, Messrs. Ord and 

 Peale, who had arrived a day or two before us from Philadelphia 

 by sea. Here the carriage and horses were sold and we chart- 

 ered a sloop of about thirty tons burden and after laying in our 

 stores and necessarys we commenced our journey toward the 

 promised land. ' ' 



They stopped at each of the Sea Islands and ascended the 

 "St. Juan" river as far as Picolata, crossing from there to St. 

 Augustine on foot where they presented their passports to the 

 Governor, for Florida was then a Spanish province. Finding it 

 impossible on account of the hostility of the Indians to follow 

 out their plans, the party was forced to return to Charleston, 

 stopping again at the Sea Islands and embarking in the spring 

 of 1818 on a packet ship for Philadelphia. Unfortunately Say's 

 letter makes no mention of the vertebrate collections and the 

 only ornithological results of the trip were two papers pub- 



^In library Acad. Nat. Sci. See also publication in Entom. News, 1901, 

 pp. 234-236 et geq. , by W. J. Fox. 



