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Dr. Stejneger, who is busy as ever, working chiefly on his 

 review of Japanese birds, sends liiud regards, as does also 



Yours truly, 



Robert Ridgwat. 



Writing to Prof. Ridgway on December 13, 1887, 

 Mr. Boardman says: "I have not written you for a 

 long time, not since the death of our dear friend, the 

 professor. Mrs. Baird has written me all the particulars 

 of his sickness and death. Since then I have seen sev- 

 eral notices and accounts of him, one I think by you at 

 the meeting of the American Ornithological Union. If 

 you have any papers or anj- duplicates of any memorials 

 of him I would be glad to get them." In the same letter 

 Mr. Boardman adds : " Our plans were to go to Char- 

 lotte Harbor, Florida, this winter, but Mrs. Boardman 

 is hardly well enough to go. We may take a run to 

 Washington after a while." 



The "run to Washington" was made in the spring of 

 1888, Mr. and Mrs. Boardman having left Calais on 

 March 8 and arrived in W^ashington March 11, where 

 they remained nearly a month. Thej- made the usual 

 calls at Mrs. Baird's ; Mr. Boardman was much at the 

 Smithsonian where he met Mr. Hornaday, Prof. Goode 

 and others and spent the time much as of old, although 

 the entries in his diarj- are brief and show a want of 

 interest. "Our dear old friend Prof. Baird," as he 

 alwaj's called him in his letters of this period to his 

 scientific friends, had gone and Washington and the 

 Smithsonian were not the same places they had been to 

 Mr. Boardman for nearly thirty years. Reaching Calais 

 from this visit on April 17, the remainder of the j-ear 

 was spent at home. 



