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[118] This entry is the only one on a large page, of which a facsimile is given. It is written in the centre, and all around the edge of the paper is a heavy black border, an inch in depth.
[119] A distinguished ornithologist said of the book in 1895: "It is one of the few ill.u.s.trated books, if not the only one, that steadily increases in price as the years go on."
[120] One of the greatest metaphysicians of modern times. Born at Glasgow 1788, died in Edinburgh, 1856.
[121] Possibly Charles Heath, engraver, 1784-1848.
[122] Thomas Bewick was at this time nearly seventy-four. He died Nov.
8, 1828, being then past seventy-five.
[123] Probably St. Mary's Abbey.
[124] Mr. Vernon was the president of the Philosophical Society of York.
[125] Mr. John Backhouse.
[126] Nearly every entry in all the journals begins and ends with a morning greeting, and an affectionate good-night. These have been omitted with occasional exceptions.
[127] Mr. Melly.
[128] John George Children, 1777-1852, English physicist and naturalist, at this time secretary of the Royal Society.
[129] Robert Inglis, 1786-1855, of the East India Company.
[130] Nicholas Aylward Vigors, 1787-1840, naturalist, First Secretary of the Zoological Society of London.
[131] Then a boy not fifteen, who was at Bayou Sara with his mother.
[132] When found by Audubon the Havells were in extreme poverty. He provided everything for them, and his publication made them comparatively wealthy.
[133] Benson Rathbone.
[134] The distance between these places is about two miles.
[135] The Duck-billed Platypus, _Ornithorynchus paradoxus_ of Australia.--E. C.
[136] The Andean Eagle is undoubtedly the Harpy, _Thrasaetos harpyia_.--E. C.
[137] Francois Athanase de Charette, a leader of the Vendeans against the French Republic; executed at Nantes, on May 12, 1797.
[138] Children's Warbler. Plate x.x.xv.
[139] Vigors' Warbler. Plate x.x.x.
[140] Cuvier's Regulus. Plate lv. No bird was named after Temminck by Audubon.
[141] This decision was made in consequence of various newspaper and personal attacks, which, then as now, came largely from people who knew nothing of the matter under consideration. It was a decision, however, never altered except in so far as regards the Episodes published in the "Ornithological Biography."
[142] David Don, Scottish botanist, 1800-1840; at this time Librarian of Linnaean Society.
[143] Thomas Nuttall, botanist and ornithologist; born in England 1786, died at St. Helen's, England, September 10, 1859.
[144] Of all the twenty-six only three are known to be in existence; the other volumes now extant are all of later date.
[145] Joshua Brookes, 1761-1833, anatomist and surgeon.
[146] Captain (Sir) Edward Sabine accompanied Parry's expedition to the Arctic regions,--a mathematician, traveller, and Fellow of the Royal Society, 1819. Born in Dublin, 1788, died in Richmond, 1883.
[147] Adam Sedgwick, geologist. 1785-1873.
[148] William Whewell, 1795-1866, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Mineralogy, and other sciences.
[149] John Stevens Henslow, botanist, 1796-1861.
[150] Dr. John Kidd, 1775-1851, Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at Oxford.
[151] Edward Burton, D.D., 1794-1836, Professor of Divinity at Oxford.
[152] William Buckland, D.D., 1784-1856, geologist.
[153] John Claudius Loudon, 1783-1843, writer on horticulture and arboriculture. In 1828-1836, editor of the "Magazine of Natural History."
[154] Edward Turner Bennett, 1797-1836, zoologist.
[155] William Swainson, naturalist and writer. Born in England 1789, emigrated in 1841 to New Zealand, where he died 1855.
[156] This picture is still in the family, being owned by one of the granddaughters.
[157] Francois Levaillant, born at Paramaribo, 1753; died in France, 1824.
[158] John Edward Gray, 1800-1875, zoologist.
[159] No trace of this portrait can be found.
[160] George Chretien Leopold Frederic Dagobert Cuvier, Baron, 1769-1832; statesman, author, philosopher, and one of the greatest naturalists of modern times.
[161] Achille Valenciennes, born 1794, French naturalist.
[162] etienne Geoffroy de St. Hilaire, 1772-1844, French naturalist.
[163] Rene Primevere Lesson, a French naturalist and author, born at Rochefort, 1794, died 1849.
[164] Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 1805-1861, zoologist.
[165] Son of Andre, Prince d'Essling and Duc de Rivoli, one of the marshals of Napoleon.
[166] Charles Alexandre Le Sueur, French naturalist. 1778-1846.
