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could readily spare, told him that that was not what he 
meant, that he was to take any that he really wished, 
and, finally, he, Mr. Audubon went through the collection 
himself and took out with his own hand many additional 
specimens, and among them some of the most valuable 
in the entire collection.’? 
April 22nd he arrived in Philadelphia, where he 
attended to various commissions, dined with Dr. Hallo- 
well, and at the Academy met Sir Charles Lyell, the 
geologist, Gambel, and Heermann,® who was later one of 
the collectors on the Pacific railway explorations. Five 
days later, with a large array of bandboxes, baskets and 
bags containing his specimens, he proceeded to Carlisle. 
The fifth of May, the Journal records, he “‘went to 
Graham’s thicket at 6 A. M. back at 9.30, shot 41 birds; 
stuffed 33 birds today in the railroad office where I kept 
the office for Uncle Ned who is absent.” The following 
day he shot 20 birds and stuffed 16, and the next shot 
26 and stuffed 22; several of his pupils being present to 
watch the process. 
On the 24th Colonel Churchill and some members of 
his family arrived from the south. It is noted that Mary 
Churchill, being ill, was staying with Mrs. Baird. 
Baird mentions that he got a lot of red cedar for 
shavings, to be put in the bottom of his bird cases to 
7 These birds are still among the cherished treasures of the collec- 
tion in the National Museum at Washington. 
8 Adolphus L. Heermann, M.D., field naturalist, collector and 
explorer, born about 1818, died in San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 2, 1865. 
He was one of the early explorers of the far West, and a member of 
Lieutenant Williamson’s expedition of 1853. His collections of birds 
and fossils are described in the report of the Pacific Railroad Surveys 
in 1859. 
