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a week or more, in order to study the collections of the National 

 Museum, where he formed the acquaintance of the scientific stall' and 

 preparatory, to whom he was always a welcome visitor on account of 

 his genial, friendly manner, and interest in their occupations. 



Mr. Boardman's interest in ornithology was mainly from the point 

 of view of a sportsman and lover of nature. He did little in the way of 

 collecting except to bring together a very complete and valuable series 

 of the birds of Calais and vicinity, consisting of specimens chiefly 

 mounted by himself, which is to be placed in one of the provincial 

 government buildings at Fredericton, New Brunswick. His principal 

 contribution to ornithological literature is his "Catalogue of the birds 

 found in the vicinity of Calais. Me., and about the islands at the mouth 

 of the Bay of Fundy," published in the Proceedings of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History (1862) ; but he also wrote many minor articles 

 on natural history for the American Naturalist, Forest and Stream, and 

 other periodicals of like character. His relations to the Smithsonian 

 Institution were rather as a correspondent and friend of Professor 

 Baird than as an extensive contributor to its collections, though many 

 interesting and valuable specimens were received from him at various 

 times. 



