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Visited Eoxbury with Thomas Brewer, a young man of much 

 ornithological taste, to see his collection of skins and eggs: 

 found his mother and family very kind and obliging, and received 

 from him seven eggs of such species as I have not. Eeturned 

 and visited David Eckley, the great salmon fisher : promised to 

 breakfast with him to-morrow. 



" September 21. Went to market and bought a female blue 

 teal for ten cents. Called on Dr. Storer, and heard that our 

 learned friend Thomas Nuttall had just returned from California. 

 I sent Mr. Brewer after him, and waited with impatience for a 

 sight of the great traveller, whom we admired so much when 

 we were in this fine city. In he came, Lucy, the very same 

 Thomas Nuttall, and in a few minutes we discussed a con- 

 siderable portion of his travels, adventures, and happy return to 

 this land of happiness. He promised to obtain me duplicates of 

 all the species he had brought for the Academy at Philadelphia, 

 and to breakfast with us to-morrow, and we parted as we 

 have before, friends, bent on the promotion of the science we 

 study. 



" Sejptember 22. This has been a day of days with me ; Nuttall 

 breakfasted with us, and related much of his journey on the 

 Pacific, and presented me with five new species of birds obtained 

 by himself, and which are named after him. One of Dr. Shat- 

 tuck's students drove me in the doctor's gig to call on Governor 

 Everett, who received me as kindly as ever ; and then to the 

 house of President Tinnay of Harvard University, where I saw his 

 family ; and then to Judge Story's. Then crossing the country, 

 we drove to Col. J. H. Perkins', and on the way I bought a fine 

 male white-headed eagle for five dollars. On my return I 

 learned that at a meeting of the Natural History Society yester- 

 day a resolution was passed to subscribe for my work. 



" Dr. Bowditch advised me to go to Salem, and with his usual 

 anxiety to promote the welfare of every one, gave me letters to 

 Messrs. Peabody and Cleveland of that place, requesting them to 

 interest themselves to get the Athenaeum to subscribe for my 

 work. 



" Salem, Mass., September 23, 1836. Eose early this morning, 

 and made preparations to go to Salem ; and at seven o'clock I 

 was in the stage, rolling out of Boston towards this beautiful 



