Scope and Contents Document signed by 18 members nominating Audubon for corresponding membership to the Academy September 28, 1831; holograph article for the Proceedings v. 6, 1852, p. 114; biographical information amassed by McCready Huston; and photographs of the Have1 Establishment in London, where some of Audubon's plates were made for his elephant folio of American Birds, Correspondence and documents for the National Exhibition in 1938 and other papers.Signers: Chestnik,...

Scope and Contents Ornithologist and explorer. The papers in this collection all refer to his experiences when accompanying Captain Wyeth across the Rocky Mountains. Captain Wyeth undertook the journey for the Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company to establish trading posts beyond the Rockies. Townsend's trip, in the company of Thomas Nuttall was extended to the Sandwich Islands. He returned to the Columbia River, collecting birds there, returning to the Islands, and eventually back to Philadelphia by way...