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In MemoriAM. 
Professor John Macoun, one of the oldest members of the Ottawa Field Naturalists’ Club, 
died at Sidney, Vancouver Island, B.C., on July 18th, 1920, in his ninetieth year. He was 
born at Maralin, Ireland, about 20 miles from Belfast, on April 17th, 1831. He came to Canada 
in 1850. 
In 1872 Mr. Macoun accompanied Sir Sanford Fleming as Botanist on an expedition to the 
West to explore and determine the line for the first transcontinental railway, now known as the 
Canadian Pacific. 
In 1875 Mr. Macoun was appointed Botanist to an expedition in the Peace River country 
under the leadership of the late Dr. Alfred Selwyn, then Director of the Geologieal Survey, 
Ottawa, and in 1881 was appointed Botanist to the Dominion Government, although he had, at 
intervals, been doing work for the Government since 1872. 
Perhaps the strongest trait in Professor Macoun’s character was a sympathetic understanding 
of his fellow-men, one that made him hosts of friends and a much-sought adviser in questions of 
doubt and difficulty. The honesty of his opinion and the straightforwardness with which his 
advice was given, in conjunction with his sympathetic manner of giving it, secured for him a 
respect and affection that lasted a lifetime. His wonderful magnetism and ready tact constituted 
him a leader of men, and had his great abilities turned to statesmanship he would have been a 
great power for the good of his country. He was a true Imperialist and a firm believer in the 
strength and integrity of the British Empire. 
He had many strong and outstanding personal characteristics. His determination and 
perseverance are marked through all his early explorations, and many accounts might be related 
where it was nothing but sheer determination that carried him safely through perilous and 
exhaustive situations. 
The late Professor Macoun was the highest authority on botanical research in Canada. His 
loss will be keenly felt not only by the Department in Ottawa with which he had been so long 
eonnected, but also by the Provincial Museum in Victoria, to which he was a constant 
eontributor and visitor. 
ACCESSIONS. 
Leg-bones of humpbacked whale taken at Kyuquot Station and presented to the Provincial 
Museum by Mr. W. Lawson, Vice-President of the Consolidated Whaling Corporation, Victoria, 
in January, 1920. 
Log of wood, Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga mucronata), showing portion of tree which had been 
cut into many years ago and how Nature provides for the covering of the hewn part. Presented 
by Mr. E. W. Haskell, Red Gap, B.C., March, 1920. 
Collection of Fungi, Musci, Lichens, Hepatic, and Algse. Collected and presented by 
Professor John Macoun, Sidney, B.C., April, 1920. 
Plants collected and presented by: Dr. C, F. Neweombe, W. B. Anderson, W. R. Carter, 
W. A. Newcombe, J. G. French, Victoria, B.C.; Professor J. K. Henry, Vancouver, B.C.; and 
Miss Susan Beaman, Prince Rupert, B.C. 
Fork-tailed Gull (Xema sabinei), taken at Glacier Point, Sooke, B.C., and presented by 
Mr, J. G. French, Oetober, 1920. ‘i 
Log of wood containing larva of Long-horned Beetle (Prionus californicus). Presented 
by Mr. C. R. Pooley, Cobble Hill, January, 1921. 
Two specimens of White-winged or Iceland Gull (Larus leucopterus), collected by Mr. 
William McKay, Kildonan, V.I., January and February, 1921. 
PUBLICATIONS OF OTHER INSTITUTIONS. 
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