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Government have for many years exploited the mountains of 

 the Western States no such books as either of these have been 'i 

 published on the flora of these mountains, a fact sufficient in 

 itself to show that they do not offer the attraction to the tourist 

 and Nature lover that our Canadian mountains do. These 

 books and the work of the Canadian Alpine Club will do more 

 to attract strangers to our mountains during the next five 

 years than anything else will. It is to the credit of the Canadian 

 Government and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company that 

 this is not only appreciated by them but that their appreciation 

 has been shown in a practical way by affording every possible 

 assistance to the authors of these books and to the officers of 

 the Alpine Club in the prosecution of their work. 



Miss Farr's "Catalogue," as has already been said, is the 

 natural complement of both of the books referred to above. 

 But it is something more than a Catalogue. Like Macoun's 

 "Catalogue of Canadian Plants" which gives the general dis- 

 tribution of all the species of flowering plants which were known 

 to occur in Canada at the time of its publication and also the 

 particular localities at which rare species had been collected, 

 Miss Farr mentions a locality in either the Rockies or Selkirks, 

 or both, at which each species may be found, which makes it -M 

 possible for one who has only a part of one season to spend in " 

 the mountains to collect most of the species known to occur 

 there. The "Catalogue" is also a practically complete list of 

 the plants of those parts of the Rockies and Selkirks that it 

 covers. Based on her own collections in 1904 and 1905 Miss 

 Farr has added to- her own list all species reported by other 

 collectors. That a complete list of the plants of any region should 

 be published is of course out of the question. All that anyone 

 can do is to publish a list of the plants known to occur and this 

 Miss Farr has done. Botanists like Prof. Macoun and Dr. 

 Fletcher who have collected in the Rockies and Selkirks for 

 more than twenty years could add a good many names to even 

 Miss Farr's list, but these names have not been published, and 

 indeed some of the plants collected by them are listed for the 

 first time in Miss Farr's "Catalogue." To the professional 

 botanist the "Catalogue" will prove more valuable than either 

 the "Flora" or Mrs. Henshaw's book. The amateur botanist 

 and the casual visitor to the mountains will find it an absolute 

 necessity, for they will certainly find many species that neither 

 Mrs. Henshaw nor Dr. Brown has described, but which are 

 catalogued by Miss Farr. 



^ J. M. M. 



