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all other branches of natural history and out-door life, 

 was an experienced woodsman and a famous and enthusi- 

 astic angler. The adjacent lakes, streams and salt water 

 estuaries of the St. Croix system in the days when Mr. 

 Boardman was in his prime, constantly furnished him 

 with the best fish that ever graced a hook — not only the 

 pelagic roamers of the ocean, but the landlocked salmon, 

 togue, trout and salmon of the waters inland, the lakes 

 and streams which he knew so well. Prof. P . W. Glover, 

 for many years in the United States Agricultural Depart- 

 ment at Washington, was a comrade of his in the days 

 when landlocked salmon bore the name of Salmo gloveri ; 

 and the two were the first to determine the species and 

 class it accordingly. In an entertaining letter dated at 

 Calais, May 1, 1887, to Mr. Charles Hallock, Mr. Board- 

 man enumerates some of his earlier angling friends, from 

 which an extract is made : 



There were Rev. Dr. George W. Bethune ; Rev. James Smith, 

 a Baptist minister of Philadelphia ; Geo. P. Trott of Philadelphia ; 

 George Dyer, a lawyer of Washington, D. C. ; G. P. Whitney of 

 Boston, a noted fisherman, with Ben French, Stephen Pineo, John 

 Pollice and Frank Waite as river men and guides. Senator George 

 F. Edmunds was up once or twice with one of my sons, and had 

 great sport. Henry Ward Beecher and his father were up, and 

 also Walter M. Brackett, the fish painter of Boston ; my brother, 

 Wm. H. Boardman and Geo. M. Porter of St. Stephen. Mr. Bab- 

 cock of Boston, died from snake bite in Florida at Pine Island 

 two years ago. Frank Kennedy, also a fisherman, was with him. 

 Stimpson H. Dennison, Boston; Geo. H. Richards, Boston; his 

 father, Francis Richards, and Uncle Henry Richards used to come 

 up years ago ; Judge Ritchie of New Brunswick ; Dr. Leith Adams, 

 Prof. Bailey of Fredericton, N. B., and many others whom I do 

 not now recall to mind. It is over fifty years ago since I began 

 to go to the lakes, and I can see great changes. Fish then were 



