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Smithsonian Institute, and sharing his field notes with other 

 workers. As early as 1862 he published a Catalogue of the Birds 

 Found in the Vicinity of Calais, Maine and about the Islands at 

 the Mouth of the Bay of Fundy (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 IX., pp. 122-132), an annotated list of 231 species. His collection 

 of Maine birds is notably complete, numbering, it is said, 278 

 species (cf. Forest and Stream, August 5, 1899) and comprising 

 some 2,500 specimens, mounted and in skins, besides a large collec- 

 tion of eggs. He was a frequent contributor to Forest and Stream 

 and other natural history journals, including the American Natu- 

 ralist and the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, and up 

 to the last days of his life is said to have contributed, "statedly, 

 every week," to the Calais Times, "an article on such natural 

 history subjects as engage the interest of the household readers 

 and inform them of the peculiar places which familiar creatures 

 of the fields and swamps and woods occupy in the animal king- 

 dom." 



Mr. Boardman was a man of genial and attractive personality, 

 and after his retirement from business, some thuty years ago, 

 devoted much of his leisure to travel and natural history pursuits, 

 his interest in such matters having a wide scope. 



The Calais Times, January 17, 1901 



It is with profound grief that the Times records the decease 

 of this eminent citizen. Mr. Boardman passed peacefully into 

 pleasant dreams, at his home on Lafayette Street, last Friday 

 morning. In our sense of personal sorrow which the event 

 brings, all readers will share. His weekly articles contributed to 

 this paper during the past five years, on scientific, ethical, educa- 

 tional and political subjects would fill a volume. His last article 

 was published in the issue of December 20, on the subject of Wars 

 of the Century. He was also a contributor to other papers and 

 magazines, especially the Forest and Stream, for many years and 

 until two weeks before his death, and the constant demand for 

 his writings attested their merit and the interest they aroused. 



It will require more than a single article to portray Mr. 

 Boardman's life, work, and qualities, all of which were of a kind 

 to induce respect, confidence and friendship. His life was in the 



