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between the two naturalists which was onlj' terminated 

 b}- Prof. Baird's death. It was also doubly happj^ to 

 Mr. Boardman, for at that time he was enjoying a sec- 

 ond visit from Henry E. Dresser, the eminent English 

 ornithologist and his brother Joseph who is alwaj's 

 referred to in Mr. Dresser's letters to Mr. Boardman as 

 Joe. The Dressers reached St. Stephen on August 7 

 and left on the day following Prof. Baird's arrival 

 and the meeting of these famous naturalists must have 

 been an event of great pleasure to each of them. After 

 spending a day or two at St. Stephen, Prof. Baird 

 went to Eastport but returned again with Mrs. Baird 

 and his daughter Eucy. While their guests Mr. Board- 

 man took Prof. Baird to the Grand Lakes and other 

 interesting places for birds and fish and after a stay of 

 some da3^s Prof. Baird returned to Eastport, leaving 

 Mrs. and Miss Baird with the Boardmans. This was 

 also the beginning of a long friendship between the two 

 families and many were the visits made to and from each 

 in after years. On their return to Washington in Sep- 

 tember Mr. Boardman accompanied the Bairds to Boston 

 and New York where the two friends ' ' went around to 

 see all the scientific folks " as Mr. Boardman records 

 in his diar3^ 



The 3^ears 1866 and 1867 were extremely busy years 

 with Mr. Boardman so far as his business interests were 

 concerned. During these jxars he went many times to 

 Boston, Providence, Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia 

 and Washington on business for his firm selling 

 cargoes of lumber, calling upon business friends, making 

 collections and purchasing supplies for his lumbering 

 camps and mills. But the interests of his dearest pursuit, 



