CHAPTER XXV 
AUDUBON’S LETTERPRESS AND ITS RIVALS 
Settlement in London—Starts on canvassing tour with his wife—Change of 
plans—In Edinburgh—Discovery of MacGillivray—His hand in the 
Ornithological Biography—Rival editions of Wilson and Bonaparte— 
Brown’s extraordinary atlas—Reception of the Biography—Joseph 
Bartholomew Kidd and the Ornithological Gallery—In London again. 
On the Ist of April, 1830, Audubon and his wife 
sailed from New York in the packet ship Pacific, bound 
for Liverpool, where they landed after a voyage of 
twenty-five days. Upon returning to London the nat- 
uralist found that upon the 18th of the preceding March 
he had been elected to membership in the Royal Society, 
an honor for which he felt indebted to Lord Stanley 
and his friend Children, of the British Museum; after 
paying the entrance fee of £50, he took his seat in that 
body on the 6th of May. The painting of pictures was 
at once resumed to meet his heavy expenses, but towards 
the end of July he started with Mrs. Audubon on a 
canvassing tour, in the course of which his plans sud- 
denly were changed so that London did not see him 
again for nearly a year.1_ On this journey they touched 
at Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, York, Hull, Scar- 
borough, Whitby, New Castle, and Belford, to visit the 
Selbys, and on the 13th of October reached Edinburgh, 
where they were soon comfortably settled in the natural- 
ist’s old lodging place, the house of Mrs. Dickey, Num- 
ber 26, George Street. 
1His correspondence with William Swainson from this point, and the 
history of his letterpress so far as that naturalist was concerned, will be 
unfolded later (see Chapter XXIX). 
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