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unknown to them. They are now, after the cruise has 
passed, I believe fully satisfied that it was not possible, with¬ 
out sacrificing the greater interests, to give more attention 
than I did to subordinate parts.” 
That the friction in every case did not cease with the end¬ 
ing of the cruise is evident from Peale’s experience. When 
he prepared his volume (Vol. VIII of the series of reports), 
on Mammalogy and Ornithology, he was denied the opportu¬ 
nity of consulting his collections, which were then in Phila¬ 
delphia, and the book was issued without the plates which 
he had prepared and colored for it. This was issued in 
1848, and ten years later another volume, with the same title, 
was published by John Cassin, who had not only the origi¬ 
nal Peale collection to study, but who also was allowed to in¬ 
corporate in his report many, if not all, of the plates pre¬ 
pared by Peale. Peale’s volume is rare and is said to have 
been suppressed. 
Stone, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel¬ 
phia, on the authority of Jardine’s Contributions to Orni¬ 
thology, published in 1852, says that only 100 copies of each 
of the Reports of the Exploring Expedition were published 
by the Government, but that the authors were allowed to 
have printed as many more as they chose, for their personal 
use, and that Peale was the only one that did not avail him¬ 
self of this privilege. Only 90 of his reports were distrib¬ 
uted by the Government, the remainder of the edition being 
destroyed by fire. Peale felt that he had been treated with 
great injustice in this matter, and evidently did not care to 
have printed what he considered an incomplete work. 
After the return of the Wilkes expedition Peale lived in 
Philadelphia until 1848. He was a member of the Musical 
Fund Society, of which his brother Franklin was the 
founder and president, and was also connected with the 
Washington Grays, one of the oldest military organizations 
of the city. On May 17, 1848, he received an appointment 
as assistant examiner in the United States Patent Office in 
Washington, and later became principal examiner in the 
