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Wm. H. Ball, Prof. J. D. Whitney, Dr. J. G. Cooper, 

 Dr. Wm. O. Ayres, R. B. Woodward, Ferdinand Grieber 

 and John Williamson. On this visit Mr. Boardman went 

 to Sacramento, San Francisco and Oakland. He also 

 visited St. Helena and the White Sulphur Springs, went 

 to the petrified forest and the geysers where he ' ' took a 

 steam bath and walked up the mountain." While in 

 California he did some collecting and mounted some 

 birds. He reached home on May 15 of that year. At 

 the close of his diary for the year is the memorandum : 

 "Game shot, 1874 19 duck, 48 partridge, 111 wood- 

 cock, 78 snipe." 



Portions of the winters of 1875, 1876 and 1877 were 

 spent, as had quite become Mr. Boardman's custom, in 

 Florida. He did not leave home in 1875 until February 

 10 and, returning on May 7, again left for the south 

 December 20 of the same year. It was after his winter 

 in Florida of that year that Mr. Boardman wrote that 

 chapter of his experiences which appears in Mr. Hal- 

 lock's Camp Life in Florida which gives so graphic an 

 account of winter life in the land which he loved next to 

 that of his own northern home. The winter of 1875-76 

 he remained in Florida until the first of April, being 

 nearly a month on the homeward journey, reaching St. 

 Stephen May 5, 1876. Again on December 26, 1876, 

 Mr. Boardman started for the south. In the early winter 

 of 1875 he was in Florida but a few days more than two 

 months, spending the time at Jacksonville, Arlington 

 and Greencove Springs. On his return he made his usual 

 visits to scientific friends at Washington, Philadelphia 

 and New York, at the latter place always visiting the 



