A LIFE RECORD 59 



Mr. Boardman wrote most interesting letters to Prof. 

 Baird during his winters in Florida. In a letter of March 

 14, 1869, he says : " Florida of all places in the United 

 States is most abundantly supplied with all kinds of 

 game. There is more of animal life about Florida than 

 in any place with which I am acquainted." Writing 

 of the immense mounds and shell heaps he says : " You 

 wall have to come down and see for yourself. You can 

 get a couple of weeks' vacation, come to Jacksonville, 

 call for me and we can soon look over them. I want 

 your opinion. I don't believe in Wyman, only Baird." 

 In a letter written April 5, of this year, in which he 

 described a box of skins he had sent to Prof. Baird, 

 occurs this : ' ' One poor little specimen of a warbler in 

 the box I did not know ; he looked very like a Tennessee 

 Warbler but I was not sure." Here is reference to a 

 young naturalist who afterward became prominent. He 

 is writing to Prof. Baird, April 1, 1869: "I saw Mr. 

 Maynard of Massachusetts down collecting. Said he had 

 found a new Chewink or Ground Robin took fifty speci- 

 mens, male, female and young, all with white eyes, 

 smaller size, outer tail feathers not white. I did not see 

 them as he had sent them north. He says he got a White 

 Heron not described. He collected at Indian River. ' ' A 

 single letter from Mr. Boardman to Prof. Baird is a good 

 specimen of the many letters he sent to his correspondents 

 while at the South : 



Enterprise, Feb. 28, 1869. 

 Dear Baird : 



I received your letter some time since and for the most of the 

 time have been running about, and have not had a very good chance 

 to write, but have had a very good time boating, fishing, shooting, 

 etc., etc. 



