A LIFE RECORD 85 



Calais was reached April 29. During the month of June 

 Mr. Boardman was employed in moving from Milltown, 

 St. Stephen, to the house on Lafayette Street, Calais, 

 where he ever afterward resided and almost daily entries 

 are made in his journal of work done in arranging the 

 collections in the museum. Almost the only entry relat- 

 ing to birds is : "June 10 — Afternoon went up to the 

 old pasture and got four Loggerhead Shrikes, White 

 Rump, first ever collected here." The diary records 

 seventy-eight correspondents for the year. 



The years 1885 and 1886 were passed by Mr. Board- 

 man at home with the exception of visits to Boston, New 

 York and the west — the summer of 1886 having been 

 spent in Minneapolis. The year 1887 was also spent 

 quietly at home with visits to Boston and Fredericton. 

 The death of Prof. Baird occurred in August of this 

 year, Mr. Boardman making a brief entry of the event 

 in his diary of August 19, 



