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spiders 10; Anemones 15. Of plants, 1,008 species were collected, 

 numbering many thousand specimens, the various families being 

 represented as follows: Flowering plants 361; Mosses 226; 

 Lichens 123; Liverworts 134; Sea- weeds 164. These large 

 collections entailed much work in mounting and identification, 

 and much of the following winter was devoted to it. His new 

 edition of the Catalogue of Canadian Birds was published in 1909. 



The large collections made in 1909 required much study and 

 arrangement. Many species were unfamiliar to Canadian special- 

 ists and had to be sent to the United States for identification, 

 and not a few were unknown to science, no less than seventeen 

 species of shells being new and many others not having been found 

 on Vancouver Island before. A new species of fish collected that 

 year was named Pterygicotlus Macounii by Bean and Weed, and a 

 special genus had to be made for it. 



As the collections of the marine fauna of the Atlantic Coast 

 were inadequate, and as there was a demand for a separate cata- 

 logue of the flora of the Maritime Provinces, Prof. Macoun was in- 

 structed to make collections during the summer of 1910 in Nova 

 Scotia and from its coast waters, and he left Ottawa, accompanied 

 by Mr. C. H. Young, on May 10th and commenced work at Yar- 

 mouth on May 14th. Other important collecting points were 

 Barrington Passage, Bridgewater, Springhill and Digby. Ex- 

 tensive and valuable collections were made there while, in the 

 meantime, Mr. Wm. Spreadborough was collecting sea birds and 

 marine animals on Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Islands. 

 After his return from the Maritime Provinces, Prof. Macoun was 

 occupied for part of the remainder of that year in writing the flora 

 of the Maritime Provinces. During 1910, Mr. James M. Macoun 

 made an expedition to Hudson Bay to study the flora and fauna 

 of the West Coast and, having been delayed by the injury to the 

 boat at Wager Inlet, did not reach Ottawa until Jan. 18th, 191 1, 

 having made the winter trip from Fort Churchill to Gimli by 

 snowshoes and dog train. 



Prof. Macoun and staff moved from the old museum on Sus- 

 sex St. to the new Victoria Memorial Museum in January, 1911, 

 and, before spring, he had finished his work on the flora of the 



