March.—First volume of the Ornithological Biography published, representing the text of the first 100 double-elephant folio plates.
April 15.—Returns with his wife to London.
May-July.—Visits Paris again in the interests of his publications.
August 2.—Starts with his wife on his second journey from England to America, and lands in New York on September 4.
Plans to visit Florida with two assistants, and obtains promise of aid from the Government.
October-November.—At Charleston, South Carolina, where he meets John Bachman and is taken into his home.
November 15.—Sails with his assistants in the government schooner Agnes for St. Augustine.
1832
April 15.—In revenue cutter Marion begins exploration of the east coast of Florida; proceeds to Key West, and later returns to Savannah and Charleston.