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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...that he saw. We were both wet with perspiration. When this was done, he invited me to call on him to-morrow at half-past ten, and went off towards the council-room. "September 23--I waited in Cuvier's departmental section until past eleven, when he came in, as much in a hurry as ever, and yet as kind as ever, always the perfect gentleman. The report had been read, and the Institute, he said, had subscribed for one copy; and he told me the report would appear in next Saturday's 'Globe.' I called on M. Feuillet, principal librarian of the Institute, to inquire how I was to receive the subscription. He is a large, stout man, had on a hunting-cap, and began by assuring me that the Institute-was in the habit of receiving a discount on all the works it takes. My upper lip curled, not with pleasure, but with a sneer, at such a request; and I told the gentleman that I never made discounts on a work which cost me a life of much trouble and too much expense ever to be remunerated; so the matter dropped."--From the "Journals." READERS' AND STUDENTS' NOTES 1. The great storehouse of information in respect to Audubon is his own autobiography. Of this work, one of the most interesting and instructive in the whole range of autobiographical writing, many editions have been printed, some of them unauthorized and more or less incomplete. The original edition entitled " The Life of John James Audubon, the Naturalist, Edited by his Widow," issued first in 1867, is published in this country by G. P. Putnam's Sons. (New York. $1.75) 2. A complete edition of Audubon's autobiography is now to be obtained. "Audubon and his Journals," by Maria R. Audubon, "with zoological and other notes by Eliot Coues, and with many portraits and other i...
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