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The chief feature of Mr. Boardmarfs zoological collection is a 

 complete presentation of the local fauna of Maine, including 278 

 species or varieties of birds found in the eastern section. The 

 museum in its entirety comprises some 2,500 specimens, mounted 

 and in skins, with the young and eggs of the most of them ; also 

 a good collection of horns — thirty-five different kinds. Among 

 his rarer miscellaneous specimens are the skins of a black wolf 

 and of a bay lynx (Lynx rufus), both obtained in Florida, where 

 he passed no less than twenty winters. 



Mr. Boardman has been prominent all his life in important 

 business interests, and now is in banks, in steamboats, vessels, 

 lumber and mills. In 1870 he retired with a competency, but his 

 time is quite fully occupied in a variety of ways, the public for 

 the most part being beneficiary. 



J. A. Allen, in The Auk for April, 1901, Vol. XVIII. , 

 Pages 219-220 



Mr. George A. Boardman, an Associate Member of the Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists 1 Union, died at his home at Calais, Maine, Jan. 

 11, 1901, at the age of 83 years. He was born in Newburyport, 

 Mass., Feb. 5, 1818, and went with his parents to Calais in 1828. 

 His ancestors came from Yorkshire, England, and settled in 

 Newbury, Mass., in 1637. Mr. Boardman, for over thirty years 

 was engaged in the lumber business on the St. Croix river, retir- 

 ing from active business in 1871. He was well known as an 

 enthusiastic naturalist and sportsman and was a warm friend of 

 the late Dr. T. M. Brewer and Professor Baird and of many later 

 and less prominent naturalists. It was his habit for many years 

 to spend his winters in Florida, stopping at Washington, New 

 York, and other points on the journey to and from Maine to his 

 winter home, to renew acquaintance with his many naturalist and 

 other friends. 



The present writer first made his acquaintance at Jackson- 

 ville, Florida, in December, 1868, and later the same winter passed 

 a few days with him at Enterprise on Lake George. He had 

 already become familiar with the bird life of Florida, where for 

 many years it was his habit to collect specimens and take field 

 notes, giving liberally of his specimens to Professor Baird of the 



