354 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 
him to Lord Stanley. When he came to write his Orni- 
thological Biography, these early friends were all pub- 
licly called by name, and we thus had (though, as it 
afterwards appeared, in name only) the “Rathbone 
Warbler,” ® “Stanley Hawk,” “Children’s Warbler,” 
“Cuvier’s Regulus,” “Roscoe’s Yellow-throat,” “Selby’s 
Flycatcher,” and_ still possess “Bewick’s Wren,” 
“Traill’s Flycatcher,’ “Henslow’s Bunting,” © “Mac- 
Gillivray’s Finch,” and “Harlan’s Hawk,” to cite a few 
instances of this form of acknowledgment. 
Within barely a week after landing at Liverpool a 
total stranger, Audubon was invited to show his draw- 
ings at the Royal Institution. The exhibition, which 
lasted a month, was a surprising success; 413 persons, 
as he recorded, were admitted on the second day, and it 
netted him one hundred pounds although no charge for 
admission was made during the first week. 
Everyone, said the naturalist, was surprised at his 
appearance, for he wore his hair long, dressed in un- 
fashionable clothes, rose early, worked late, and was 
abstemious in food and drink. Shortly after his arrival, 
contributed to the Edinburgh and Westminster Reviews. Traill’s exposure 
of the neglect which the natural-history collections had suffered in the 
custody of the British Museum paved the way to a separate Department 
of Zodlogy, which in the able hands of John E. Gray, and later in those 
of Sir Richard Owen, led to the present great Museum of Natural History 
at South Kensington. 
5In dedicating the Sylvia rathbonia Audubon said: ‘Were I at liberty 
here to express the gratitude which swells my heart, when the remembrance 
of all the unmerited kindness and unlooked-for friendship which I have 
received from the Rathbones of Liverpool comes to my mind, I might pro- 
duce a volume of thanks. But I must content myself with informing you, 
that the small tribute of gratitude which it is alone in my power to pay, 
I now joyfully accord, by naming after them one of those birds, to the 
study of which all my efforts have been directed. I trust that future 
naturalists, regardful of the feelings which have guided me in naming 
this species, will continue to it the name of the Rathbone Warbler.” 
“Named after John Stevens Henslow, Professor of Botany in the 
University of Cambridge, whom Audubon had met in 1828, when Charles 
Darwin was still his pupil. 
