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flounder is, I think, the same as one previously sent by you from 

 Mr. Wilson's weir. It is known in New Jersey as the Window- 

 pane, from its thinness (Lophopsetta Maculata). The sandpiper, 

 with the muscle attached is interesting and serves to illustrate the 

 methods by which animals become distributed from one point to 

 another. I shall be very glad to have good samples of the red 

 granite, including a four-inch cube and one of a foot and any- 

 thing else in the way of style or pattern. 



During the late summer and fall of that year Mr. Board- 

 man records the trips to his favorite shooting grounds 

 where he got j^oung petrel, black gallinule, marsh hawk, 

 reed bird, kingfisher, wood duck and partridge. On 

 November 14, having closed his house for the winter, Mr. 

 and Mrs. Boardman again left for the south. They made 

 but brief calls on the way in Boston and New York, 

 arriving at Jacksonville November 19. According to the 

 records in his diary Mr. Boardman had corresponded 

 during the year with seventy different persons, to more 

 than thirty of whom he wrote frequent letters. On 

 December 31 he received a letter from Prof. Baird telling 

 of his disappointment at not having a visit from the Board- 

 mans on their passage through Washington for the south. 

 Prof. Baird writes : 



Washington, D. C, Dec. 29, 1881. 

 Dear Mr. Boardman: 



We were quite surprised to get your letter from Palatka, 

 when we were trying to intercept you on the way through Wash- 

 ington, wishing you to pay us a visit. I hope you will take 

 Washington on your return, and that Mrs. Baird will be well 

 enough to have you and Mrs. Boardman come directly to our 

 house. I cannot bear the idea of having you go off to the far 

 west without our seeing you. One comfort, however, will be that 

 you will continue to go to Florida as heretofore. 



I wish very much you would consider yourself a special agent 

 of the Smithsonian and National Museum along the line of the 



