JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 71 
engravings are truly beautiful; some of 
them have been coloured, and are now on 
exhibition.’ 
Audubon’s journal, kept during his 
stay in Edinburgh, is copious, graphic, 
and entertaining. It is a mirror of 
everything he saw and felt. 
Among others he met George Combe, 
the phrenologist, author of the once 
famous Constitution of Man, and he sub- 
mitted to having his head ‘‘looked at.’’ 
The examiner said: ‘‘ There cannot exist 
a moment of doubt that this gentleman 
is a painter, colourist, and compositor, 
and, I would add, an amiable though 
quick tempered man.”’ 
Audubon was invited to the annual 
feast given by the Antiquarian Society 
at the Waterloo Hotel, at which Lord 
Elgin presided. After the health of 
many others had been drunk, Audubon’s 
was proposed by Skene, a Scottish his- 
torian. ‘‘ Whilst he was engaged in a 
handsome panegyric, the perspiration 
