90 THE NATURALIST OF THE ST. CROIX 



left about the last of April although some of them were here 

 until May 10. I don't see much that is new but go out shooting a 

 few days every week. 



His diary for the year gives a list of more than one 

 hundred persons with whom Mr. Boardman had cor- 

 responded during the year. 



In the early winter of 1890 Mr. and Mrs. Boardman 

 left for the south and without stopping at Washington 

 reached Jacksonville January 27. On their return early 

 in April they spent four days in "Washington where visits 

 were made at Mrs. Baird's and calls upon members of the 

 Maine Congressional delegation. Mr. Boardman spent 

 two days at the museum and botanic garden and on 

 April 12, Mrs. Boardman attended the reception of Mrs. 

 President Harrison. They reached home on April 26 

 and in July of that year Dr. Henry Foster and wife of 

 Clifton Springs, N. Y., whose acquaintance they had 

 made in Florida, visited them for a week. On January 

 5, 1891, the Boardmans left for the south, arriving at Jack- 

 sonville on the tenth of that month. Their friends, the 

 Fosters, were with them for several weeks and the winter 

 though pleasant was uneventful. Mr, Boardman's diary 

 contains no records of interest upon natural history for 

 the entire winter. On April 16 they left for the north, 

 spending but a single day in Washington and reaching 

 home on April 23. This was the last of the many happy 

 winters which the Boardmans passed in the south. 

 Going there first in 1868 they had spent the whole or parts 

 of seventeen winters in Florida during which time Mr. 

 Boardman had become as familiar with its flora and its 

 fauna as he was with that of his own St. Croix Valley. 

 There was nothing more for him to learn, nothing new 



