Nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Lucien arrived in this country in 1822 to visit his uncle Joseph who resided in Philadelphia. Bonaparte was an ornithologist who continued the text of Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology and with Ord published the last volume of that work. His paper in the Academy's Proceedings on the nomenclature of Wilson's Ornithology was the first to use the word nomenclature in American ornithology. Unlike Alexander Wilson and Audubon who were artists and field men primarily, Bonaparte was a true systematist. After returning to Italy he started work on a monumental project entitled Fauna Italica, 3 volumes of which were published between 1833 and 1841 but dealt only with fishes and reptiles. The collection of specimens from which this work was described was sold by Bonaparte to Thomas B. Wilson who presented them to the Academy. The specimens are still here and are known familiarly as the “Bonaparte fishes.” He was elected to the Academy in 1824 and remained a staunch supporter even after he returned to Italy in 1827. His full name was Charles Lucien Jules Laurent, Prince de Camino and also Prince de Musignano, both titles being inherited from his father who was knighted by Napoleon Bonaparte. This lot contains nine writings and two letters, one written to Isaac Hays, the second to the Academy's publication committee, both dated 1826.