X. INTRODUCTION 



preparation of this memoir. They have not only borne 

 the entire expense of its publication but have assisted 

 me in many ways — given many suggestions, furnished 

 numerous facts and also assisted me in obtaining much 

 necessary information. They have greatly deferred to 

 my judgment and seconded my every wish for making 

 the volume the creditable work which it is hoped it will 

 be found. To Mrs. J. Clark Taylor, Calais, Maine, the 

 only daughter of Mr. Boardman, for the loan of the 

 entire mass of his correspondence with naturalists, with- 

 out which the preparation of this volume in its present 

 form would have been impossible. To Prof. S. P. Lang- 

 ley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, for the loan of the collection of letters writ- 

 ten by Mr. Boardman to Prof. S. F. Baird, now in the 

 custody of the Institution; for the loan of the plate of 

 portrait of Prof. Baird, as well as for many dates and facts 

 and the kindly answer of numerous letters of inquiry. 

 To lycwis Sperry, Esq., Hartford, Conn., and to Mrs. 

 Mary Ellsworth Wood, East Windsor Hill, Conn., for the 

 use of Mr. Boardman's letters to Dr. William Wood ; 

 for the memoir and portrait of Dr. Wood and for other 

 important material. To Hon. P. W. Fleweliing, of the 

 Crown I^ands Department, Fredericton, N. B., for much 

 information relating to the transfer of the Boardman col- 

 lection of ornithology to the Provincial government of 

 New Brunswick and for personal interest in the work. 

 To Robert Ridgway, curator of birds in the Smithsonian 

 Institution, Washington, D. C. ; to J. A. Allen of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, Central Park, 

 New York, and to Charles Hallock, Plainfield, Mass., 

 for the use of letters of Mr. Boardman and to the latter 



