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372 Gkinnell, Audubon Park. [July RECOLLECTIONS OF AUDUBON PARK. BY GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL. Plates XVII-XVIII. The interest which we all feel in John James Audubon, and in those connected with him, must plead my excuse for writing this and for the too frequent use of the first person singular. I spent my boyhood in Audubon Park, and what I have to say relates to members of the Audubon family and chiefly to the woman to whom — quite as much as to her husband — we owe the greatest work on ornithology that America has produced. I should like to give you some impression of the personality of Madam Audubon and her son, John Woodhouse, and to make you see the surroundings of their later lives somewhat as I recall them. Lucy Bakewell Audubon was a fit mate for her great husband, for her steadfastness and determination supplied qualities which in some degree he lacked. I believe that of the two she was the stronger — as she was the better balanced — character. If she did not have her husband's vivacity, charm, versatility and artistic talent, she possessed characteristics more important: the force to keep him up to his work, the faith to cheer his heart when dis- couraged, the industry and patience to earn money that he might continue his struggle, and the unyielding will to hold the family together. It was largely through her assistance and support that at last he won success. A few years after the death of Audubon my father moved to Audubon Park. I was a very small boy about far enough ad- vanced in polite learning to know A from B. At that time Madam Audubon conducted a little school for her grandchildren, which was attended also by some of the neighbors' children, of whom I was one. It was my first attendance at a school. Except for two houses with the plots of land about them, the whole tract of Minnie's Land, or Audubon Park, then belonged to Madam Audubon. Victor, the eldest son, was bedridden as the result of an accident, and John Woodhouse, a man of great energy,