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‘Birds’ to the Linnean Society.” This consisted only of parts 
i to 20 of the work, which, at that date, was in course of publi- 
cation, and was not completed until 1839, when it formed four 
volumes, folio, containing 435 plates. Two years afterwards 
he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. 
John James Audubon. 
From the portrait by Henry Inman. 
(By the courtesy of the Publisher.) 
From London he used to make excursions in various 
directions, paying visits to friends in Edinburgh, Newcastle, 
Manchester and elsewhere. 
In Edinburgh he wrote : — 
“ Perhaps not a day passes without I visit in thought those mansions where 
I have been so hospitably received, the inmates of which I recall with every sense 
of gratitude ; the family of Rathbone [of Greenbank, Liverpool] always first, the 
Selby’s [of Twizel] next; in London, Mr. Children; in Manchester, the Greggs 
and Bentleys and my good friend Sergeant ; at Leeds, Mr. Atkinson ; at New- 
castle, dear old llewick, Mr. Adamson [Secretary of the Literary and Philosophical 
Institute], and the Rev. William Turner, and here (at Edinburgh) Mr. Lizars ; 
my good friends Patrick Neill, Professor Jameson, Patrick Symes, and too 
