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exchanges with his large list of scientific correspondents. 

 His collection had in fact outgrown the rooms of his 

 dwelling assigned to it and in the fall of 1863 he built a 

 special building into which his birds were moved from 

 his house on September 14 of that year. This building 

 was sixteen by twenty-six feet and ten feet posted, very 

 pretty in its Swiss style of architecture and being sur- 

 rounded by trees and shrubbery formed an attractive 

 feature of the grounds. When his birds were installed 

 in this house Mr. Boardman took great pleasure in being 

 in it, arranging his collections and working among his 

 birds, nests and eggs. 



In June, 1864, John Krider, the Philadelphia natural- 

 ist and commercial bird-man, first visited Mr. Boardman 

 and remained two weeks. They went to the Grand 

 L,akes, to Maguerrawock and numerous other places of 

 local note for birds, obtained many rare specimens and 

 had a fine time together on shooting and collecting 

 trips. A correspondence, exchange of specimens and 

 friendship existed between them throughout life. On 

 his business visits to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, 

 Providence and Boston, which were very frequent, Mr. 

 Boardman always called on his naturalist friends and no 

 entries in his diary are made with more regularity than 

 those in which he records his visits to them and that he 

 looked over their collections. He was always intent on 

 new or rare things and was glad to see what his friends 

 possessed or had obtained since previous visits. 



In this year Mr. Boardman received from the Smith- 

 sonian Institution a series of bird skins from the most 

 northern portion of the continent of America, collected 

 by the collaborators of the Institution in the Hudson's 



