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Shock to Him — Worked on His Autobiography — Con- 

 ducted a Column in the Sidney Review under the Name 

 of "Rambler" — Died of Heart Failure at Sidney, Van- 

 couver Island, July 18, 1920 — Personal Characteristics 

 — Family — Species Named after John Macoun. 



DURING the winter of 1904-5, Prof. Macoun continued to 

 work on the Rocky Mountain flora, and prepared speci- 

 mens of plants for exhibition at Lake Louise, Field and 

 Glacier in the Rocky and Selkirk Mountains. He also wrote a 

 short account of the fauna and flora of these mountains for Mr. 

 A. O. Wheeler's book on The Selkirk Range. As the fauna and 

 flora of the St. Lawrence River Valley, below Quebec, had not 

 been thoroughly worked up, it was decided that he should spend 

 some time there and, during the summer of 1905, he made his 

 headquarters at Montmorency Falls and Cap a l'Aigle and ex- 

 amined the district west of Murray Bay, and River, and eastward 

 to Port a Persis, west of Tadousac. He had a very successful 

 season and large collections were made. From the material ob- 

 tained, he found that the coldness of the water gave arctic sea- 

 weeds, while the flora of the hill-sides indicated a summer tem- 

 perature much higher than had been anticipated. After his 

 return to Ottawa, he spent the autumn months collecting fungi 

 in the vicinity of that city, obtaining nearly 700 species. 



Prof. Macoun received instructions, in the spring of 1906, to 

 make an examination of the country on both sides of the Grand 

 Trunk Pacific Railway line from Portage la Prairie, Man., to 

 Edmonton, Alta. He left Ottawa on June 1st and Portage la 

 Prairie on June 1 1th. When he traversed this part of the prairies 

 in 1872, on his first expedition with Sandford Fleming, there was 

 only the Hudson's Bay Company's fort, where Portage la Prairie 

 now stands, and there was no settlement beyond Rat Creek, and, 

 from there to Edmonton, stretched an unbroken wilderness. In 

 1879, seven years later, when he went through, settlements were 

 being formed at many points east of Fort Ellice and, on the pub- 

 lication of his report after that trip, a rush took place for land 

 further west. Going over the country again, in 1906, when he saw 



