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

by Francis Hobart Herrick

[247] Ruthven Deane ([Bibl. No. 225]), The Auk, vol. xxv (1908).

[248] At that time the American Museum of Natural History, New York, possessed nine; the Smithsonian Institution, six; Princeton University, four; Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, one, while the remainder were in private hands.

[249] For the substance of this paragraph, I am indebted to the Report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, New York, 1913.

[250] See Mrs. Horace St. John, Audubon, the Naturalist of the New World ([Bibl. No. 71]), New York, 1856.

[251] See Valentine's Manual of the City of New York, New York, 1865.

[252] On October 30, 1847, Bachman wrote John and Victor Audubon that he proposed to visit them in the following May, when he would leave his two daughters with them awhile, "to hear you and Victor grumble about that eye-sore of a railroad, and to enjoy your good company, and your fish and shrimps."

[253] To Mr. Jesse Benedict.

[254] Mr. Charles F. Stone, whose sister was an artist.

[255] For probable meaning of this term, see Note, [Vol. I, p. 54].

[256] Or acariasis, an affection of the skin caused by the mange-mite, Demodex folliculorum, a microscopic arachnid parasite found in the sebaceous glands of dog and man.