. Guide leaflet. nducted expeditions to far-away Labradorand the then remote Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. When weremember the limited facilities for travel in his day, the scarcity ofrailroads, steamboats and other conveniences, we are better preparedto appreciate the zeal, determination and energy necessary to accomplishhis self-imposed task. That it was possible for one man to do so much excellent field work,to write so many meritorious volumes and to paint such a multitude 1 The Birds of America, 4 atlases, double elephant folio colored plates. Lon-don, 1827-1838; Ornithological Biograp
. Guide leaflet. nducted expeditions to far-away Labradorand the then remote Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. When weremember the limited facilities for travel in his day, the scarcity ofrailroads, steamboats and other conveniences, we are better preparedto appreciate the zeal, determination and energy necessary to accomplishhis self-imposed task. That it was possible for one man to do so much excellent field work,to write so many meritorious volumes and to paint such a multitude 1 The Birds of America, 4 atlases, double elephant folio colored plates. Lon-don, 1827-1838; Ornithological Biography, an account of the habits of the birdsof the United States. 5 vols. Royal 8vo, Edinburgh, 1831-1839. 2 The Quadrupeds of North America by John James Audubon and Rev. JohnBachman. 3 vols. Royal 8vo text, and elephant folio atlas of colored York, 1846-1854. 3 Synopsis of Birds of North America. Edinburgh & London, 1839. 4 Audubon and his Journals by Maria R. Audubon. 2 vols. 8vo. New York,1897. 12. JOHN TORREY Born, New York, August 15, 1796Died, New York, March 10, 1873 Botanist, chemist One of the founders of botanical science in the United States of remarkable pictures must be attributed in no small part to his rarephysical strength, for do not intellectual and physical vigor usually gohand-in-hand and beget power of achievement? Audubon was notedfor these qualities. As a worker he was rapid, absorbed and ardent;he began at daylight and labored continuously till night, averagingfourteen hours a day, allowing, it is said, only four hours for sleep. In American ornithology, in which he holds so illustrious a place, it wasnot his privilege to be in the strict sense a pioneer, for before him wereYieillot/Wilson and Bonaparte; and contemporaneous with him were Rich-ardson, Xuttall, Maximilian Prince of Wied and a score of lesser andyounger lights some of whom were destined to shine in the near future. Audubon was no closet naturalist — the technicalities of the pro-
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