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name “to that Institution which thought me unworthy 
to be a member . . . There is no malice in my heart,” 
he continued, “and I wish no return or acknowledgment 
from them. I am now determined never to be a mem- 
ber of that Philadelphia Society.” Let it be noted, 
however, that Audubon was elected to membership in 
the American Philosophical Society, when their recog- 
nition could no longer be withheld and when mutual 
animosities had died down. ‘Three days later he re- 
corded that all of his drawings had been taken from 
the walls of the Royal Institution, where they had been 
on exhibition a month, and that he was intending to 
present to the Society his large canvas of the Wild Tur- 
keys, for which Galley, the picture dealer, had offered 
him a hundred guineas on the previous day.** 
Among Audubon’s early patrons were Lord and 
Lady Morton, and more than once he was invited to 
visit them in their beautiful country seat of “Dalma- 
hoy,” where a large, square, half-Gothic building, 
crowned with turrets and adorned with all the signs 
of heraldry, overlooked a beautiful landscape to Edin- 
burgh, marked by its famous castle, seen in miniature 
on the horizon, eight miles away. Being somewhat ap- 
prehensive of meeting the former Chamberlain to the 
late Queen Charlotte, Audubon had imagined the Earl 
** Audubon’s copy of this oil painting remained in the possession of 
his family until a few years ago, when it was sold for a much greater 
amount. It now adorns the beautiful ornithological museum of Mr. John 
E. Thayer, at South Lancaster, Massachusetts; it represents a cock and hen 
turkey in life size, adapted from the subjects of his two most famous 
plates, and is in an admirable state of preservation. Mr. Thayer’s collec- 
tion also embraces Audubon’s large canvas of the Black Cocks, from the 
Edward Harris estate, a charming study of the Hen Turkey, with land- 
scape setting, and, also in oils, several smaller panels of Flickers and 
Passenger Pigeons, which, if not the work of the naturalist, are copies after 
his originals, and possibly made by Joseph B. Kidd. (See Vol. I, p. 446; and 
for a notice of Mr. Thayer’s other Audubonian drawings, Vol. II, p. 227, and 
Appendix II.) 
