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of most of them. Not only was he a student and naturalist, but a 

 keen sportsman as well and a famous and enthusiastic angler. 



Boston Journal^ January 13, 1901 



George A. Boardman, a prominent and wealthy citizen of 

 Calais, Me., died at his home Friday morning, January 11, aged 

 eighty-three years. He had been a noted naturalist and an author- 

 ity on ornithology for nearly fifty years. His private museum 

 comprised the finest local collection of mounted birds in New 

 England, if not on the continent. It is to be placed in one of the 

 Government buildings at Fredericton, N. B. and to be known as 

 the George A. Boardman Collection. He contributed many inter- 

 esting articles to Forest and Stream and other magazines and 

 papers, up to within two weeks of his death. The last issue of 

 Outing speaks of him (with others) as one of the noted sportsmen 

 of the past century. 



Forest and Stream, January 26, 1901 



The death of Mr. George A. Boardman, recox'ded in another 

 column, removes from the list of Forest and Stream's subscribers, 

 contributors and readers one of the very oldest. Mr. Boardman 

 was for a large imrt of his life an active business man, but like 

 many of those who work hardest in the world's business, he made 

 time to pursue what was his pleasure as energetically as he did 

 his business. For more than fifty years he had been a naturalist, 

 and had done work with and aided some of the most eminent of 

 the naturalists of this country. Audubon, Agassiz, Baird, Downs 

 and others were among the men with whom Mr. Boardman was 

 associated, to whom he freely gave of the interesting facts that he 

 had collected and among whom to some extent he distributed 

 the collections which he had made. 



Notwithstanding this generosity, he was able to gather 

 together a very large museum which, as might be supposed, 

 represented with singular completeness the fauna of eastern 

 Maine. Mr. Boai-dman was thus naturally one of the first author- 

 ities on the fauna of the extreme Northeastern United States, and 

 it was to him that application was first made for information on 

 that subject. 



