CHAPTER VII 



SOME SCIENTIFIC RESULTS 



THE ornithological museum created by Mr. Boardman 

 will always remain the great triumph of his life as a 

 naturalist. It is indeed a sufficient monument to the 

 exactness of his knowledge in that branch of science to 

 which he was devoted, to his love for natural history, to 

 his application and industry in its study throughout a 

 long period. Other men devoted to science have left 

 worthy memorials of their life-work in other ways — 

 voluminous treatises, exact and learned monographs, 

 published works which have ranked as authoritative in 

 the great libraries of the world. It is Mr. Boardman's 

 monument to have left to science one of the largest and 

 most interesting collections in ornithology and natural 

 history ever gathered by a private individual in this 

 country, representing a life-time of active study and pre- 

 serving to students of ornithology a collection showing 

 the almost complete fauna of eastern North America. 

 While this is indeed abundant fame for one individual 

 much can be said for Mr. Boardman's contributions to 

 the literature of ornithology and general natural history. 

 It may be mentioned at the outset of such summary of 

 results that Mr. Boardman was not in earlier life much 



