CORRESPONDENCE 257 



London, 2 October, 1869. 

 Dear Boardman: 



Thanks for your nice long letter of the 14th September 

 received this week. I am afraid I have not half as much to tell 

 you in return as there is not much going on here just now. 



I have had a first rate artist staying with me, a new man from 

 Lej'den called Keulemans. He can paint many birds I think quite 

 equal to Wolf and is a first rate ornithologist at the same time. I 

 am trying to get him some of Elliot's work to do and am the 

 more anxious to bring it about because 1 am fully convinced 

 Elliot will be fully satisfied with his work, and he is a man who 

 wants to push his way as a bird painter. 1 never saw any one but 

 Wolf who could turn out such really artistic and true paintings of 

 birds. He has done one painting of several of the rarest of my 

 Texan birds, amongst others of Dendroica chrysopareia, and he is 

 not dear in his prices. If you see Elliot please put in a word for 

 him as he is a most deserving man. 



I should like to see the book they publish at the Smithsonian 

 on the clam beds. Can it be bought, and at what price? I should 

 like to buy many of the scientific publications in America if they 

 are to be had and particularly those of the Smithsonian. I have 

 tried to do so here but without success. How can I get them? 



You will have a nice trip in Florida this winter and I wish I 

 could make it with you for if we were together I expect we should 

 do some big collecting. I will look after a mounted Greenland 

 Falcon for you and can probably soon get one. I am glad you 

 have some Petrel eggs for me as I am about out of them again 

 and they are a good stock for exchanging. Thanks for the 

 information you give me about your game laws ; we much need 

 such a law here and it should be strictly enforced for in an over- 

 peopled country the birds should be protected. I see you have 

 your birds all arranged now what a lot you have ! I have been 

 getting my American eggs all in order and catalogued and will 

 make you out a list of what I have when I have a spare evening 

 to do so. I intend now to keep them apart from my European 

 eggs and in fact to make quite a separate collection of them and 

 shall have a large cabinet made on purpose. 



