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CONTENTS— Continued 



quis of Salisbury, Earl Warwick, Earl of Erne, Marquis of Lome, 

 and others — Visits Ireland and finds distant relatives and name- 

 sake, John Macoun of Kilmore — Many places of interest in 

 England are visited — Interesting incidents 234 



Chapter XVI— 1887-1893.— Visits Vancouver Island to study the 

 fauna and flora — Ascent of Mount Arrowsmith — Alberni— Cape 

 Beale — Returns to Ottawa by C. P. R. — Appointed Asistant Direc- 

 tor and Naturalist to the Geological Survey — Visits Prince Edward 

 Island, 1888 — Lower Mainland, Okanagan District, Shuswap 

 Lake, and Gold Range, B.C., 1889 — Large collections made for 

 the Museum — Another visit to British Columbia, 1890 — West 

 Kootenays and eastward through the Selkirks — Visits district 

 about Banff, 1891 — Mountain climbing — Photographing trees near 

 Lake Erie and obtaining specimens of the wood, 1892— Collecting 

 on the Lower Mainland of British Columbia and on Vancouver 

 Island, 1893 — Many interesting incidents -. 247 



Chapter XVII — 1893-1897. — Arranging material for the proposed 

 New Museum — Visits the prairies, 1894, to collect specimens — 

 Medicine Hat, Crane Lake, Cypress Hills — Examination of South- 

 ern Saskatchewan and Alberta, 1895 — Conclusions in regard to 

 drought — Collecting in Manitoba and Northern Saskatchewan, 

 1 896— Examination of the southern slope of the Rocky Mountains 

 and the Crow's Nest Pass, 1897 — Adventures and amusing inci- 

 dents 266 



Chapter XVIII— 1897-1904.— Visits Cape Breton, 1898— Sable 

 Island, 1899 — Interesting observations on the vegetation of the 

 Island — Begins the Catalogue of Canadian Birds, winter 1899- 

 1900 — Examination of Algonquin Park, Ont., 1900 — Studies flora 

 from Niagara to Lake Erie, 1901 — Visits the Klondike and reports 

 on the agricultural possibilities of the district, 1902 — Interesting 

 observations on the climate of the Yukon — Spends the first summer 

 in thirty years in Ottawa and vicinity, 1903 — Another visit to the 

 Rocky Mountains, 1904 — Laggan, Kicking Horse Lake, Field, 

 Emerald Lake — Collecting — Incidents 276 



Chapter XIX— 1904-1920.— Work on the Rocky Mountain flora- 

 Collecting along the Lower St. Lawrence, 1905 — Montmorency 

 Falls, Cap a l'Aigle, Murray Bay, Tadousac — Collecting fungi 

 about Ottawa — Examining the country on both sides of the Grand 

 Trunk Pacific Railway from Portage la Prairie to Edmonton, 1906 

 — Amusing incidents in regard to Prof. Macoun — Resolution of 

 appreciation of his work passed by Agricultural Committee of 

 House of Commons, 1906— -Arranging specimens for the Victoria 

 Memorial Museum — Obtained photographs of trees in Western 

 Ontario, 1907 — Later in season went to Gaspe Basin and Perce, 

 P.Q., to study seaweeds — Revised his Catalogue of Canadian Birds, 

 1907-8 — Visited Vancouver Island, 1908 — Large collections made 

 — Visited West Coast of Vancouver Island, 1909 — Great variety 

 of species and large number of specimens of marine life collected — 

 Collected in Nova Scotia, 1910 — Wrote the Flora of the Maritime 

 Provinces — Moved to the Victoria Memorial Museum, 1911 — 

 Work on the Ottawa and Vancouver Island flora with a view to 

 publication — Has a paralytic stroke, 1912 — Moves to Vancouver 



