[258] "Colonel Boone," ibid., vol. i, p. 503.
[259] See [Chapter V, p 88].
[260] "The Prairie," Ornithological Biography, vol. i, p. 81.
[261] John Burroughs, John James Audubon ([Bibl. No. 87]), p. 37.
[262] "See History of Sutton, New Hampshire, compiled by Augustus Harvey Worthen, pt. I (Concord, 1890).
[263] "The Eccentric Naturalist," Ornithological Biography ([Bibl. No. 2]), vol. i, p. 455.
[264] For the characterization of Rafinesque given in the present chapter I am chiefly indebted, aside from his own writings, to his two most sympathetic biographers, Richard Ellsworth Call and T. J. Fitzpatrick, as well as to David Starr Jordan; see [Bibliography, Nos. 198], [228], and [183]. Fitzpatrick gives photographic reproductions from Rafinesque's exceedingly diversiform and scattered works; his bibliographic titles extend to 939, and "Rafinesquiana" to 134.
[265] "At Palermo," said Swainson, "I had the pleasure of meeting ... Rafinesque Schmaltz, whose first name is familiar to most zoölogists. In the society of such congenial minds, I passed many happy hours, and made many delightful excursions ... by the inducement of the latter, I was led to investigate the ichthyology of the western coast." (See [Bibliography, No. 170].)
[266] See [Vol. I, pp. 171] and [336].
[267] See David Starr Jordon ([Bibl. No. 183]), Popular Science Monthly, vol. xxix (1886). "The true story of this practical joke was told me by the venerable Dr. Kirtland, who in turn received it from Dr. Bachman;" the latter, I might add, was the friend and correspondent of the "Sage of Rockport" after a visit at his home near Cleveland in the summer of 1852. In the private notebooks of Rafinesque copies of Audubon's drawings are still to be seen, and "a glance at these," said Dr. Jordon, "is sufficient to show the extent to which science through him has been victimized."