Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Life and Services of John James Audubon: An Address Delivered Before the the New York Academy of Sciences, April 26, 1893
His trip with Stein was a failure financially, and returning to Natchez he went to Philadelphia. There he met the artist Sully, who gave him valuable lessons in Oil painting, and he worked hard to complete his drawings of birds. His friends and the engravers of Wilson's plates all recommended him to visit Europe, and he decided to follow their advice, and left Philadelphia to return to Bayou Sara. III New York he was introduced by Dr. Dekay to the members of the Lyceum of Natural History, now the Academy of Sciences, which has been instrumental in raising the monument this day unveiled, and under whose auspices we meet this evening. His drawings were exhibited to the members, among whom, he says, I felt awkward and uncomfortable. After living among such people I feel clouded and depressed; remember I have done nothing, and fear I may die unknown. I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America. III a few days I shall be in the woods and quite forgotten.
Oii arriving at Bayou Sara he began to consider what he could do to hasten the publication Of his drawings. His wife was receiving a large income for those days, nearly which she Offered to give him, and he resolved 011 an effort to increase the amount. From Woodville came a special invita tion to teach dancing, and a class of sixty pupils was formed.
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