. Audubon and his journals . -man of Wilson, destinedto lend the sturdy Scotch fibre to an Audubonian cpoch.^The brilliant French-American Naturalist was little of a scientist. Of his work the magical beauties of form andcolor and movement are all his; his page is redolent ofNatures fragrance; but MacGillivrays are the bone andsinew, the hidden anatomical parts beneath the lovelyface, the nomenclature, the classification, — in a word, thetechnicalities of the science. 1 There has been much question as to the spelling of MacGillivraysname, Professor Newton and most others writing it Macgillivra
. Audubon and his journals . -man of Wilson, destinedto lend the sturdy Scotch fibre to an Audubonian cpoch.^The brilliant French-American Naturalist was little of a scientist. Of his work the magical beauties of form andcolor and movement are all his; his page is redolent ofNatures fragrance; but MacGillivrays are the bone andsinew, the hidden anatomical parts beneath the lovelyface, the nomenclature, the classification, — in a word, thetechnicalities of the science. 1 There has been much question as to the spelling of MacGillivraysname, Professor Newton and most others writing it Macgillivray, but in theautograph letters we own the capital G is always used. - Address at the special meeting of the Xew York Academy of Sciences,April 26, 1S93. Referring to one of the six epochs into which, in the same work,Dr. Coues divided the progress of American Ornithology. His Audubonepoch extends from 1S24 to 1853, and one of the four periods into whichthis epoch is divided is the Audubonian period, MRS. AUDUBON. FROM THE MINIATURE BV F. CRUIKSHANK. T835. AUDUBON 65 Though somewhat discouraged at finding that no lessthan three editions of Alexander Wilsons AmericanOrnithology were about to be published, Audubon wentbravely on. My grandmother wrote to her sons: Noth-ing is heard, but the steady movement of the pen; yourfather is up and at work before dawn, and writes withoutceasing all day. Mr. MacGillivray breakfasts at nine eachmorning, attends the Museum four days in the week, hasseveral works on hand besides ours, and is moreoverengaged as a lecturer in a new seminary on botany andnatural history. His own work ^ progresses slowly, butsurely, for he writes until far into the night. The first volume of Ornithological Biography was fin-ished, but no publisher could be found to take it, soAudubon published it himself in March, 1831.^ Duringthis winter an agreement had been made with Mr. J. to copy some of the birds, put in backgrounds, sellthem, and divide t
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