106 THE NATURALIST OF THE ST. CROIX 



Parliament. It was comprised in seventy-four boxes 

 which included the birds, nests, and eggs, together with 

 the animals, skulls, heads, horns, corals, casts of fishes 

 and other natural history specimens which made up the 

 collection. The collection is now installed in the old 

 supreme court room of the Parliament House at Fred- 

 ericton, N. B. This room is twenty-eight by thirty-three 

 feet and is rather imperfectly lighted. The cases, which 

 are quite tall, so obstruct the light that it is impossible 

 to obtain a satisfactory view of the interior, but the 

 accompanying plan will give a good idea of the arrange- 

 ment of the room while the plate shows the beautiful 

 Government House in which the collection is deposited. 

 There are seven large cases in the room, each of which 

 has several shelves, together with two octagon cases 

 which are placed around pillars which support the ceiling. 

 Against the wall opposite from the entrance to the room 

 out of the main hall is the original case marked A 

 which was in Mr. Boardman's Milltown, N. B., residence 

 and in his Calais museum, while over it upon the wall in 

 large letters is a tablet reading : The Boardman Collec- 

 tion. This original case has in it from 140 to 150 species 

 of song birds. Around the walls of the room are eleven 

 cases, in an inclined position, for the nests and eggs, 

 while upon the walls in various places are disposed the 

 casts and paintings of fish, with heads and horns of 

 animals. There is a fine pair of elk horns from Oregon 

 and a pair of moose horns from Maine, the latter of 

 which spread fifty-six inches, with eighteen points on 

 each horn, having very wide palmations. It is one of the 

 most elegant pairs of moose horns ever taken in this 

 State. The mounted warblers are in the centre octagon 



