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Photographer: Devry Becker Jones (CC0)
Taken: November 14, 2020
Caption: Charles-Lucien Bonaparte banner on display in Bordentown
Additional Description: As a budding naturalist, he and his wife, Zenaide, came to live at Point Breeze with his uncle Joseph Bonaparte in 1823. During their residency in the Lake House, he compiled lists of almost all flora and fauna he observed on the estate. He was a contemporary of John J. Audubon, and wrote the country's second book on ornithology. Leaving for Europe in 1826, Charles-Lucien earned the title, Father of Descriptive Ornithology.
Submitted: November 16, 2020, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p550312
File Size: 5.099 Megabytes

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