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Eskimo Points. In 1931, after a few months in Alaska, he returned to the 

 Mackenzie Delta, where during the next four years he traveled extensively 

 along the arctic coast between Anderson River and Herschel Island. In 

 1937 he was a member of Captain Bob Bartlett's expedition to Labrador and 

 west Greenland, and during the war years 1940-1943, while Canadian Consul 

 to Greenland, did considerable botanical collecting along the west coast of 

 Greenland. In 1944 he conducted a botanical survey in southeastern Yukon 

 along the Alaska Highway and the Canol Road, and in 1945 commenced a 

 botanical exploration of the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains, which 

 has been continued during the summers of 1945, 1951, and 1956. The sum- 

 mer of 1947 was spent on the Mackenzie River between Slave Lake and the 

 Delta. In 1949 he went to Great Bear Lake and the western islands of the 

 western Canadian Arctic Archipelago. In 1953 he made a short visit to Axel 

 Heiberg Island in the eastern Arctic Archipelago. 



Porsild's extensive collections are chiefly at Ottawa. Duplicates are widely 

 distributed. Some eighty-odd titles, mainly on arctic botany, geography, and 

 zoology, have resulted from his long period of field activity. Many of these 

 are of major revisionary, monographic, and floristic scope. Illustrative of 

 the latter are "Botany of Southeastern Yukon Adjacent to the Canol Road," 

 "The Vascular Plants of the Western Canadian Arctic Archipelago," and 

 Illustrated Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Doctor Porsild is now 

 in the process of writing a Flora of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 

 extending from Waterton Lake to Jasper and is preparing botanical maps 

 for a new atlas of Canada. 



Hugh M. Raup, Director of Harvard Forest at Harvard University, is 

 another outstanding contributor to the botany of Canada. He served as field 

 botanist for the Canadian National Museum during the summers of 1928- 

 1930 and led successive expeditions to the Peace River District, Wood 

 Buffalo Park, and Lake Athabaska in the Mackenzie River Basin, 1926-1930, 

 1932, 1935, and 1939 and expeditions along the Alcan Highway where he was 

 consultant to the U.S. Army in 1943 and 1944. In 1948 he conducted an 

 expedition to the southwest Yukon. 



There has resulted from Professor Raup's many years of exploration in 

 northwestern Canada a vast amount of collected materials, approximately 

 15,000 field numbers, the first set of which is deposited at Gray Herbarium. 

 Major contributions to the literature of Canada are his "Phytogeographic 

 Studies in the Peace and Upper Liard River Regions," "Botanical Investiga- 

 tions in Wood Buffalo Park," "Phytogeographic Studies in the Athabaska- 

 Great Slave Region," and "Botany of Southwestern IMackenzie." Raup is a 

 practicing and vocal exponent of field operation, which seeks not only to make 

 plant inventory of the region traversed, but to combine an interpretation of 

 plant identity and kind with over-all ecology and phytogeography, particularly 

 as they relate to the overriding requirements of effective and conservative land 



