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been made than that of Mr. Peale, whose zeal in the cause of 
natural history had previously induced him to join those 
useful citizens who, under the command of that excellent 
officer, Major Long, explored the western wilds as far as the 
Rocky Mountains.” 
Peale also drew the plates for the three volumes of Say’s 
American Entomology, published in 1824-’28, and in the 
original work the 18 plates in each volume were colored by 
him. The North American Review said of this that for 
beauty and elegance this work surpasses any other that has 
been published in this country. Several large oil paintings 
were made by Peale from sketches made during this trip, 
among them groups of buffalo, moose, and Rocky-Mountain 
sheep. He also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of 
Fine Arts, in Philadelphia, a collection of water color draw¬ 
ings of animals. 
In 1831 an expedition was organized under the patronage 
of Dr. Marmaduke Burrows for the exploration of the Mag¬ 
dalena River, in South America. Titian Peale accompanied 
it and the collections were presented to the Philadelphia 
Museum, and the Museum Company voted Mr. Burrows a 
gold medal for his munificent liberality. 
In 1833 Peale published the first part of a work on 
Lepidoptera Americana, illustrated with colored plates, which 
was never carried to completion. He also made the illustra¬ 
tions for a number of articles that appeared in the Proceed¬ 
ings of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences about this 
time. When his brother Franklin Peale went to Europe in 
connection with some work for the United States Mint, 
Titian was placed in charge of the Philadelphia Museum. 
July 19, 1833, he was elected a member of the American 
Philosophical Society, and a few years later, when the 
Wilkes Exploring Expedition was organized, he was ap¬ 
pointed one of the two naturalists to accompany it. This 
expedition to the South Seas extended over the years 1838- 
5 39-’40 and ’42. Peale was attached to the sloop Peacock, 
which was wrecked at the mouth of the Columbia River, in 
