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Natural History, Boston, Mass. ; Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. ; 

 Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. ; Portland Society of Nat- 

 ural History, Portland, Maine ; Natural History Society 

 of New Brunswick, St. John, N. B.; Zoological Society 

 of London, London, Eng., and the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion and Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 

 He also exchanged specimens with the commercial nat- 

 uralists in New York and Philadelphia. 



On nearly every one of his vessels that carried lumber 

 to foreign ports a box of specimens was sent by Mr. Board- 

 man to some correspondent and often separate smaller 

 boxes and parcels to other individuals were included. 

 Naturalists were constantly writing to him for specimens 

 and his response to their requests were always liberal and 

 prompt. Mr. Boardman's largest contribution was to 

 the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C, regard- 

 ing which the Secretary, Prof. S. P. Langley, says: 

 " The records here show that Mr. Boardman contributed 

 to the collections forty-eight accessions, consisting largely 

 of birds and bird skins and comprising in all nearly two 

 hundred specimens. The most noteworthy of Mr. Board- 

 man's gifts to the Institution were several specimens of 

 the now extinct Labrador Duck ( Camptolaiynus lah-ador- 

 ius), which is very rare, a single skin being worth at the 

 present time about $1,000." 



In reference to this very valuable contribution to the 

 Smithsonian it is related that when in New York, on one 

 of his visits to the South, he went to the museum in 

 Central Park, which had some duplicates of these ducks 

 and the director ordered an assistant to pack the ducks 

 and send themto Mr. Boardman's address in Washing- 

 ton. Upon his return from the south, in the spring, he 



