APPRECIATIONS AND HONORS 151 



Henry E. Dresser, London, Eng. 



Mr. Boardman lived to a great age and lived an active and 

 useful life and one cannot be sorry for his death but only for those 

 who have lost him. It is now^ nearly 40 years since I last saw him 

 at Calais, but it seems but yesterday, and I have a most pleasing 

 recollection of the time I spent in his company talking over bird 

 matters. He was a most excellent field naturalist and a keen 

 observer, and to me who then was but a young naturalist he was 

 always most ready to lend a helping hand as he was to any young 

 fellow who was interested in ornithology or oology. 



Among the honors conferred upon Mr. Boardman 

 were the following : He was chosen a corresponding 

 member of the Boston Society of Natural History, April 

 16, 1862. On April 10, 1863, he was elected a cor- 

 responding member of the Natural History Society of 

 New Brunswick, St. John. At the first congress of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union held at New York in 

 September, 1883, he was elected an associate member of 

 that body. He was also an honorary foreign member of 

 the Zoological Society of I^ondon, Eng. On the occa- 

 sion of the dedication of the new building of the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural Historj^, New York, which was 

 opened by President Rutherford B. Hayes, December 22, 

 1877, Mr. Boardman was invited as a special guest. 



