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Florida and I want you to know him. If you ever get 

 time to come to Florida he wants you to visit him ; he is 

 away in the woods where people cannot find him. He 

 built the little steam yacht Clifton, which I was in several 

 winters. He expects to be in Washington next Sunday. 

 Mrs. Foster is a sister to Mr. Edwards, the butterfly man 

 and a very fine lady." November 24, 1878 : "When 

 you wrote last you was about sending a man to Georges 

 to collect sea birds and other natural history specimens. 

 What did he get that was new or interesting ?" February 

 6, 1879: "When I left Washington last April Prof. 

 Glover was quite ill. I have never heard from him since. 

 Did he recover?" 



" I have not written you," says Mr. Boardman in a 

 letter dated February 2, 1880, "since I heard of the 

 death of Prof. Milner. The last you wTote me about 

 him was in the spring, that it was thought his trouble 

 was not with his lungs. I asked about him in some letters 

 but as you did not mention him I supposed he had 

 recovered and was with j^ou at his work. I was very 

 sorry to read of his death. He w^as a very nice fellow. 

 And then so soon to read of the death of our dear old 

 friend Dr. Brewer. It was a great shock to me. I had 

 not heard of his being ill and having letters from him 

 every little while did not realize he might be sick. I 

 shall miss him very much. He was such a home body, 

 too. I hardly know how Mrs. Brewer and Lucy will get 

 along without him. But this must be the way very soon 

 with all of us old fellows our time will soon be up." 



Writing in reference to the Fisheries Exhibition in 

 London in 1880, he says under date of April 5 of that 

 year : "I expect you were very bus)^ getting your 



