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Edward Island, going to St. John, Halifax, Annapolis, 

 Charlottetown and Summerside, calling upon scientific 

 friends and visiting at St. John the natural history 

 museum. Again in September, before leaving for Wash- 

 ington, Prof, and Mrs. Baird again visited the Board- 

 mans. 



After having spent several weeks with friends in Boston 

 and Brookline, Mass., in the early winter of 1872-73, Mr. 

 and Mrs. Boardman left for Florida January 6 and, without 

 stopping at Washington, reached Jacksonville January 

 14. His diary shows that after arriving and having made 

 calls upon all his friends Mr. Boardman at once com- 

 menced his favorite pursuits of shooting, skinning birds 

 and mounting specimens. This was his constant employ- 

 ment and the records in his diar}^ show what birds he 

 shot and mounted each day. On Februarj^ 10, 1873, the 

 little steamer Clifton was launched. She was built in 

 Philadelphia by a party of gentlemen from Clifton Springs, 

 N. Y., among whom was Dr. Henry Foster, head of the 

 Sanatorium at that place, who was one of Mr. Board- 

 man's intimate friends, the two having been together in 

 Florida for two winters. The places on the upper St. 

 Johns river were then comparatively wild and game was 

 abundant. Mr. Boardman went farther up the river 

 that winter in the Clifton than any sporting party had 

 been previouslj'. The Clifton onl}^ drew twenty inches 

 of water ; she had a crew of three men and had accom- 

 modations for a party of six. In a chapter contributed 

 by Mr. Boardman to camp life in Florida, published at 

 New York in 1876, he says he was on board of her for 

 two winters and had a splendid time. " Such a boat," 

 he says, "can go to the upper waters of the St. Johns 



