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JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1780-1851)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 899 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:JAMES See also:AUDUBON (1780-1851)  , See also:American naturalist, is said to have been See also:born on the 5th of May 178o in See also:Louisiana, his See also:father being a See also:French See also:naval officer and his See also:mother a See also:Spanish See also:creole . He was educated in See also:Paris, where he had lessons from the painter, J . L . See also:David . Returning to See also:America in 1798 he settled on a See also:farm near See also:Philadelphia, and gave himself up to the, study of natural See also:history, and especially to See also:drawing birds, In 1826 he went to See also:England in the See also:hope of getting his drawings published, and by the following See also:year he had obtained sufficient subscribers to enable him to begin the publication of his Birds of America, which on its completion in 1838 consisted of 435 coloured plates, containing 1055 figures of birds the See also:size of See also:life . See also:Cuvier called it " le plus magnifique See also:monument que fart ait encore eleve a la nature." The descriptive See also:matter to accompany the plates appeared at See also:Edinburgh in 5 vols. from 1831 to 1839 under the See also:title of American Ornithological See also:Biography . During the publication of these See also:works See also:Audubon divided his See also:time between See also:Great See also:Britain and America, devoting his leisure to expeditions to various parts of the See also:United States and See also:Canada for the purpose of See also:collecting new material . In 1842 he bought an See also:estate on the See also:Hudson, now Audubon See also:Park in New See also:York See also:City . In 1844 he published in America a popular See also:octavo edition of his Birds of America . He also took up the preparation of a new See also:work, The Quadrupeds of America, with the collaboration of See also:John Bachman, the publication of which was begun in New York in 1846 and finished in 1853-1854 . He died at New York on the 27th of See also:January 1851 . See See also:ORNITHOLOGY; also Audubon and his See also:Journals (1897), by his See also:grand-daughter Maria R .

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