294 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 



Chap. CXXIX. — ^AN act making appropriations for cer- 

 tain Civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the 

 thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. 

 To enable the Secretary of State to purchase one hundred 

 copies, each, of Audubon's "Birds of America" and "Quadru- 

 peds of America," for presentation to foreign governments, in 

 return for valuable works sent by them to the Government of 

 the United States, sixteen thousand dollars, 

 [Act of August 18, 1858 (LL State., 90).] 



In John Woodhouse Audubon's family there were 

 two sets of children, two by his former wife, Maria R. 

 Bachman, and seven by Caroline Hall, to whom he was 

 married on October 2, 1841. Victor Gifford Audubon, 

 who had no children by his first wife, May Eliza Bach- 

 man, was married on March 2, 1843, to Georgiana Rich- 

 ards Mallory, an Englishwoman, and six children were 

 born to them between 1845 and 1854. Of the natural- 

 ist's fifteen grandchildren, six are believed to be now 

 living (1917).* 



In 1852-3 Audubon's sons built houses for their 



•John W. Audubon's children by Maria Bachman were: (1) Lucy 

 Audubon (Mrs. De Lancey Barclay Williams), 1838-1909; (2) Harriet Bach- 

 man Audubon, 1839- ; by Caroline Hall, who died in 1899: (3) John 

 James Audubon, 1842 (lived one day) ; (4) Maria Rebecca Audubon, 

 1843- ; (5) John James Audubon, 184S-1893; (6) William Bakewell 

 Audubon, 1847- , who emigrated to Australia, where he engaged in sheep- 

 raising, and has two children, Leonard Benjamin and Eleanor Caroline 

 Audubon; Leonard Audubon, who is twenty-nine, is now fighting for France 

 in the 55th Battalion of the Australian contingent; as I have been recently 

 informed by his aunt, he has been almost constantly on the fighting front 

 since August, 1916, and in the spring of 1917 he was promoted from the 

 ranks "on account of great bravery under unusual conditions ;" if still living, 

 William Audubon and his son are the sole male representatives of the 

 American branch of the Audubon family; (7) Jane Audubon, 1849-1853; 

 (8) Florence Audubon, 1853- ; (9) Benjamin Phillips Audubon, 185S- 

 1886. 



Victor G. Audubon had six children by his second wife, Georgiana R. 

 Mallorj-, who died in 1882; (1) Mary Eliza Audubon, 1845- ; (2) Rose 

 Audubon, 1846-1879; (3) Victor Gifford Audubon, 1847-1915; (4) Delia 

 Talman (Mrs. Morris Frank Tyler), 1849- ; (5) Lucy Bakewell Audu- 

 bon, 1851-1898; and (6) Anne Gordon Audubon, 1854-1907. 



