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Maritime Provinces. As soon as he had done this he commenced 

 work on the flora of Ottawa and the district surrounding it, making 

 also collections in this district during four months of the year, 

 this being the first summer that he had spent in Ottawa since he 

 moved to this city from Belleville in 1882. 



In 191 1, Mr. P. A. Taverner was appointed to his staff, and 

 was given charge of all the vertebrates and, during the year, did 

 much work in the arrangement and cataloguing of the specimens. 

 This year, Mr. J. M. Macoun worked up the very large collection 

 of plants made by him on the West Coast of Hudson's Bay in 

 1910. Because of his knowledge of the fur seal, Mr. J . M. Macoun 

 was sent to Washington early in the summer as one of Canada's 

 representatives at the Fur-Seal Conference. 



At the close of the collecting season, Prof. Macoun wrote in 

 the new localities into the Ottawa flora he had written the pre- 

 vious winter, and so completed the enumeration of the Ottawa 

 species with their distribution in the 30-mile zone. When this was 

 completed, he worked over the collections of Vancouver plants in 

 anticipation of spending the summer of 1912 there for the purpose 

 of completing the flora of the Island. He was taken ill on March 

 6th, and was not able to travel until April 24th, when he left for 

 Vancouver Island accompanied by Mr. J. M. Macoun, and had 

 soon begun to collect at Sidney, B.C. By the end of the summer 

 season he had listed and collected a large number of plants and 

 had added many species to the Island flora. He now decided to 

 make Sidney his home, and he and his wife lived, until his and 

 her death, with his son-in-law, and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. 

 A. O. Wheeler. 



He was soon sought out by the local naturalists, with whom, 

 during the remainder of his life, he was on very friendly terms, 

 and many collections were brought to him in 1912 for aid in 

 identification. 



During the last three months of that year, he devoted his 

 time almost exclusively to collecting cryptogams, the autumn 

 and winter of Vancouver Island being the best season for this 

 purpose. Large collections of mosses, lichens, hepaticae, fungi, 

 and sea- weeds were made. 



