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When the Academy of Natural Sciences moved to its present 

 location on Logan Square in 1876, Peale was given a room 

 opening ofiP of the library, where his collection of butterflies was 

 housed and which in 1888 the writer occupied and began the 

 care and development of the Academy's study collection of bird 

 skins. Peale was also given a room on the entresol floor which 

 he furnished, and here his wife used to come and sit with him 

 during the day. This room he was forced to vacate when the 

 Wm. S. Vaux collection of minerals was received and this and 

 the adjoining rooms were required for its arrangement. Curi- 

 ously enough, when the Vaux collection was removed to the new 

 wing of the museum in 1896, the collection of bird-skins was 

 placed in the old Peale room ; and here for thirteen years the 

 Delaware Valley Club held its meetings. 



In 1889, after the death of Mrs. Peale, the collection of 

 butterflies and quantities of books, letters, sketches and relics 

 of the Exploring Expedition were removed from the cases where 

 they had been stored. The collection was presented to the 

 Academy and the other things distributed among relatives or 

 destroyed. The writer regrets his failure to realize the fund of 

 historical information which was no doubt available at this time 

 and which is now lost forever. Many books etc. from Peale'^s 

 library have turned up in second-hand stores and "junk shops *' 

 from time to time, showing that they had been disposed of by 

 those who had inherited them. Peale' s manuscript journals of 

 the Exploring Expedition were picked up by Mr. Rhoads along 

 with the Florida journal already referred to and have now been 

 secured by the Library of Congress where their preservation is 

 assured. 



Dr. Edward J. Nolan and Dr. Spencer Trotter both remem- 

 ber Peale in his later days as a genial, entertaining old gentle- 

 man with interesting reminiscences of his long and varied 

 career. He was twice married ; first to Eliza Cecilia La Fogue 

 in 1822 and in later life to Lucy McMullin. He had eight 

 children by his first marriage, a daughter being named Florida 

 in remembrance of his trip of 1824 and one of his sons, George 

 Ord after the ornithologist. Only one son reached manhood 

 and both he and his only son are now dead, leaving four great- 



