CHAPTER X 



CORRESPONDENCE WITH NATURAI.ISTS 



MR. BOARDMAN was a voluminous letter writer. 

 His list of correspondents embraced nearly every 

 ornithologist of note in this country, of the period when 

 he was most active in his ornithological collections and 

 studies, together with many in New Brunswick and 

 some in England. He not only spent a great deal of time 

 when at his summer home on the St. Croix in cor- 

 respondence with his naturalist friends, but when at 

 Florida during the winter he was a constant and frequent 

 letter-writer. Not only this, the letters which have been 

 examined that were written by Mr. Boardman show that 

 when stopping in Boston, New York or Philadelphia for 

 a day or two on his journeys to or from the south, he 

 wrote many letters to his correspondents when at his 

 hotel. If he called upon his scientific friends or saw any- 

 thing new at the museums he was always sure to write 

 half a dozen letters to his correspondents, telling them 

 whom he had met and what he had found that was new. 

 This was especially the case when stopping at his brother 

 Gorham's in New York. Even when on his trips to the 

 west and to California, as well as during his visits at 



