CHRONOLOGY XXXV1l 
1837 
Spring.—Starts overland with Edward Harris and John W. 
Audubon for New Orleans; there meets the revenue cutter 
Campbell, and in her and her tender, the Crusader, the 
party proceeds as far as Galveston, Texas; visits President 
Sam Houston. 
May 18.—Leaves for New Orleans, and on June 8 reaches 
Charleston. John Woodhouse Audubon is married to 
Bachman’s eldest daughter, Maria Rebecca. 
To Washington, and meets President Martin Van Buren. 
July 16.—Sails with his son and daughter-in-law on the packet 
England from New York; reaches Liverpool on August 2d, 
and on the 7th is in London. 
The panic of this year causes loss of many subscribers, but 
Audubon decides to extend The Birds of America to 87 
parts, in order to admit every new American bird discov- 
ered up to that time. 
1838 
June 20.—Eighty-seventh part of The Birds of America pub- 
lished, thus completing the fourth volume and concluding 
the work, which was begun at Edinburgh in the autumn of 
1826. 
Summer.—By way of a holiday celebration tours the High- 
lands of Scotland with his family and William MacGilli- 
vray. 
Autwmn.—To Edinburgh, where, with the assistance of Mac- 
Gillivray, the fourth volume of his Biography is issued in 
November. 
1839 
May.—Fifth and concluding volume of the Ornithological Bi- 
ography is published at Edinburgh. A Synopsis of the 
Birds of North America, which immediately follows, brings 
his European life and labors to a close. 
