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I have collected nothing of late but a few common gulls. All 

 our rine Grosbeaks have left to go south and I hardly see a 

 woodpecker or chickadee about the trees. 

 Sincerely yours, 



Geo. a. Boardman. 



Among the foreign ornithologists with whom Mr. 

 Boardman corresponded for many years is Henry E. 

 Dresser of London, England. Among the papers of Mr. 

 Boardman have been preserved seventy-one letters from 

 Mr. Dresser, the first bearing date of 1862 and the latest 

 of 1874. The period of greatest activity in this corre- 

 spondence was during the years 1865 to 1867. There have 

 been examined fourteen letters written by Mr. Dresser 

 to Mr. Boardman in 1865 ; fifteen in 1866, and fourteen 

 in 1867. In answer to a request for letters of Mr. Board- 

 man Mr. Dresser writes from London, October 24, 1902 : 

 " I have hunted high and low for letters from Mr. Board- 

 man that might be of use to you in your memoir but can 

 find none or I would send them with pleasure." It is 

 matter for regret that no letters from Mr. Boardman to 

 Mr. Dresser have been obtained but from the few from 

 Mr. Dresser which are given in this memoir it is easy 

 to infer the nature of their correspondence and the sub- 

 jects upon which they were writing. 



Henry Ecles Dresser was brought up for the lumber 

 business and after having been at school in Germany 

 and then to the Swedish university at Upsala, where he 

 ^ earned that language, he went to Finland to learn the 

 xumber business. After acquiring every detail of the 

 business he was sent out to the Lancaster mills at Mus- 

 quash, near St. John, N. B. It was while at Musquash 

 that he formed the acquaintance of Mr. Boardman. "As 



