Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)

by Francis Hobart Herrick

[56] See [Bibliography, No. 21].

[57] At one time superintendent of the Patent Office at Washington, and professor in the medical department of Columbia College; he was later professor of mathematics in the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia and editor of the Franklin Journal and American Mechanics' Magazine.

[58] See [Bibliography, No. 115].

[59] See [Bibliography, No. 93].

[60] This episode was referred to in [ Chapter XX, p. 316].

[61] This was very clearly pointed out in 1908 in an excellent article by Mr. George W. Colles, entitled "A Defence of Audubon" ([Bibl. No. 160]), in Scientific American, vol. xcviii, p. 311.

[62] See Plate lii, of the Chuck-will's-widow.

[63] See [Vol. II, p. 3]; and [Bibliography, No. 107].

[64] An English geologist, who made a survey of the bituminous coal-deposits of the Alleghany mountains in 1834. See [Bibliography, No. 129].

[65] Ornithological Biography ([Bibl. No. 2]), vol. iv, p. xviii.