2 20 Notes and Netvs. \_A^^\ 



Yorkshire, England, and settled in Newburj, Mass., in 1637. Mr. Board- 

 man, tor o^■er thirty years, was engaged in the lumber business on the 

 St. Croix Ri\er, retiring from acti\e business in 1871. He was well 

 known as an enthusiastic naturalist and sportsman, and was a warm 

 friend of the late Dr. T. M. Brewer and Professor Baird, and of many 

 later and less prominent naturalists. It was his habit for manj' years to 

 spend his winters in Florida, stopping at Washington, New York, and 

 other points on the journey to and from Maine to his winter home, to 

 renew acquaintance with his many naturalist and other friends. 



The present writer first made his acquaintance at Jacksonville, Florida, 

 in December, 186S, and later the same winter passed a few days with him 

 at Enterprise, on Lake George. He had already become familiar with 

 the bird life of Florida, where for many years it was his habit to collect 

 specimens and take field notes, giving liberally of his specimens to 

 Professor Baird for the Smithsonian Institution, and sharing his field 

 notes with other workers. As early as 1862 he published a ' Catalogue 

 of the Birds found in the Vicinity of Calais, Maine, and about the 

 Islands at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy' (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 IX, pp. 122-132), an annotated list of 231 species. His collection of 

 Maine birds is notably complete, numbering it is said, 278 species {cf. 

 Forest and Stream, Aug. 5, 1899), and comprising some 2500 specimens, 

 mounted and in skins, besides a large collection of eggs. He was a 

 frequent contributor to "'Forest and Stream' and other natural history 

 journals, including the ' American Naturalist ' and the ' Bulletin of the 

 Nuttall Ornithological Club,' and up to the last days of his life is said to 

 have contributed, " statedly, every week," to the Calais 'Times,' "an arti- 

 cle on such natural history subjects as engage the interest of the household 

 readers and inform them of the peculiar places which familiar creatures 

 of the fields and swamps and woods occupy in the animal kingdom." 



Mr. Boardman was a man of genial and attracti\'e personality, and 

 after his retirement from business, some thirty years ago, devoted much 

 of his leisure to travel and natural history pursuits, his interests in such 

 matters having a wide scope. 



Captain John Clifford Brown, United States Volunteers, an Asso- 

 ciate Member of the American Ornithologists' Union, died January 16, 

 1901, at Los Angeles, California, of dysentery contracted in the Philip- 

 pines. Captain Brown was born at Portland, Maine, March 28, 1S72. 

 He early showed a strong taste for electrical science, and made a special 

 study of this at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of Boston, 

 where he giaduated with very high rank in 1893. Almost immediately 

 thereafter he was employed by the New York Telegraph and Telephone 

 Compan\' in its engineer department. His advancement was rapid, and, 

 at the breaking out of the war with Spain, he occupied a position of 

 responsibility not often given to so young a man. He had, however, been 

 a member of the Seventh Regiment for several years, and he believed it 



