A LIFE RECORD 59 



Mr. Boardman wrote most interesting letters to Prof. 

 Baird during his winters in Florida. In a letter of March 

 14, 1869, he says : " Florida of all places in the United 

 States is most abundantly supplied with all kinds of 

 game. There is more of animal life about Florida than 

 in anyplace with which I am acquainted." Writing 

 of the immense mounds and shell heaps he says : " You 

 will have to come down and see for yourself. You can 

 get a couple of weeks' vacation, come to Jacksonville, 

 call for me and we can soon look over them. I want 

 your opinion. I don't believe in Wyman, only Baird." 

 In a letter written April 5, of this year, in which he 

 described a box of skins he had sent to Prof. Baird, 

 occurs this : ' ' One poor little specimen of a warbler in 

 the box I did not know ; he looked very like a Tennessee 

 Warbler but I was not sure." Here is reference to a 

 3 r oung naturalist who afterward became prominent. He 

 is writing to Prof. Baird, April 1, 1869: " I saw Mr. 

 Maynard of Massachusetts down collecting. Said he had 

 found a new Chewink or Ground Robin — took fifty speci- 

 mens, male, female and young, all with white eyes, 

 smaller size, outer tail feathers not white. I did not see 

 them as he had sent them north. He says he got a White 

 Heron not described. He collected at Indian River." A 

 single letter from Mr. Boardman to Prof. Baird is a good 

 specimen of the many letters he sent to his correspondents 

 while at the South : 



Enterprise, Feb. 28, 1869. 

 Dear Baird: 



I received your letter some time since and for the most of the 

 time have been running about, and have not had a very good chance 

 to write, but have had a very good time boating, fishing, shooting, 

 etc., etc. 



