JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 85 
tickled Audubon greatly to find that the 
Frenchman at the office in Calais, who 
had never seen him, had described his 
complexion in his passport as copper red, 
because he was an American, all Ameri- 
cans suggesting aborigines. In Paris they 
early went to call upon Baron Cuvier. 
They were told that he was too busy to be 
seen: ‘‘ Being determined to look at the 
Great Man, we waited, knocked again, 
and with a certain degree of firmness, 
sent in our names. The messenger re- 
turned, bowed, and led the way up 
stairs, where in a minute Monsieur le 
Baron, like an excellent good man, came 
to us. He had heard much of my friend 
Swainson, and greeted him as he de- 
serves to be greeted ; he was polite and 
kind to me, though my name had never 
made its way to his ears. I looked at 
him and here follows the result: Age 
about sixty-five ; size corpulent, five feet 
five English measure ; head large, face 
wrinkled and brownish ; eyes grey, brill- 
