12 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 
ute’s walk from the spot where most of Audubon’s 
Birds were engraved. Both had seen the naturalist 
walk the streets of London and had known him in busi- 
ness relations. He occasionally strolled into the old 
naturalist’s shop, which has been occupied by father and 
son for nearly a century. The son, then a young clerk, 
is now (1918) the crabbed veteran who still waits on 
customers but never waits long; should you hazard a 
question before making a purchase, he will roar like 
the captain of a ship and leave you to your own devices; 
but show him money and the change in his demeanor 
is wonderful; his hearing improves, his tone softens, 
and he may recount for you what he remembers of 
times long past, which is not much. Audubon in the 
thirties seemed to him like an aged man, an impression 
quite natural to a youth. He also remembered seeing 
Charles Waterton, Audubon’s declared enemy and 
supercilious critic, William Swainson, his one-time 
friend, and William MacGillivray, his eminent assist- 
ant; that they were great rivals expressed the sum of 
his reflections. He recalled the time when Oxford 
Street was filled, as he expressed it, with horses and 
donkeys, and of course knew well the old Zoological 
Gallery, No. 79 Newman Street, in which for a time 
Robert Havell & Son conducted a shop in connection 
with their printing and engraving establishment. ‘The 
latter, when moved by Robert Havell, Jr., to No. 77 
Oxford Street, was nearly opposite the old Pantheon, 
which still lingers, and not far from the corner of 
Wrisley Street, the present site of Messrs. Waring & 
Gillow’s large store. 
We already possess several biographies of Audu- 
bon, and many of his letters of a personal or scientific 
interest and most of his extant journals, though but a 
