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Florida and I want you to know him. If you ever get 

 time to come to Florida he wants you to visit him ; he is 

 away in the woods where people cannot find him. He 

 built the little steam yacht Clifton, which I was in several 

 winters. He expects to be in Washington next vSunday. 

 Mrs. Foster is a sister to Mr. Edwards, the butterfly man 

 and a very fine lady." November 24, 1878: "When 

 you wrote last you was about sending a man to Georges 

 to collect sea birds and other natural history specimens. 

 What did he get that was new or interesting ?" February 

 6, 1879: "When I left Washington last iVpril Prof. 

 Glover was quite ill. I have never heard from him since. 

 Did he recover?" 



" I have not written you," says Mr. Boardman in a 

 letter dated February 2, 1880, "since I heard of the 

 death of Prof. Milner. The last you wrote me about 

 him was in the spring, that it was thought his trouble 

 was not with his lungs. I asked about him in some letters 

 but as you did not mention him I supposed he had 

 recovered and was with you at his work. I was very 

 sorry to read of his death. He was a very nice fellow. 

 And then so soon to read of the death of our dear old 

 friend Dr. Brewer. It was a great shock to me. I had 

 not heard of his being ill and having letters from him 

 every little while did not realize he might be sick. I 

 shall miss him very much. He was such a home body, 

 too. I hardl}^ know how Mrs. Brewer and Luc}- will get 

 along without him. But this must be the way very soon 

 with all of us old fellows — our time will soon be up." 



Writing in reference to the Fisheries Exhibition in 

 London in 1880, he says under date of April 5 of that 

 year: "I expect you were very busy getting your 



