300 DEATH OF PROF. MACOUN 



He attended the Convention of the Canadian Forestry As- 

 sociation at Victoria, in September, 1912. 



His botanical investigations in 1913 were confined mainly 

 to the vicinity of Victoria and Sidney, Vancouver Island, but 

 short visits were made to adjacent islands. During the autumn 

 and winter months, he again paid special attention to cryptogams 

 as, previous to his residence here, little had been done in the study 

 of them here. Many new species were added by him this year, 

 which were determined by specialists. Twelve new species of 

 flowering plants were added to the flora of Vancouver Island. 



In 1914, he devoted most of his working hours to the study of 

 cryptogams, no less than 196 species of fungi having been deter- 

 mined for him by Dr. John Dearness, London, Ont., in the autumn 

 of that year. Other specialists who aided him in this work were 

 Mrs. E. G. Britton and Prof. O. E. Jennings with musci, Mrs. 

 G. K. Merrill with lichens, Miss C. C. Haynes with hepaticae, 

 Mr. F. S. Collins with sea-weeds and Mr. C. G. Lloyd with woody 

 fungi. 



By 1915, his collection of flowering plants of Vancouver Is- 

 land had reached 826 species. Of lichens, he had 195 species 

 named and catalogued and more than a thousand species of mosses, 

 sea-weeds, and fungi. During 1915, he spent seven weeks at 

 Comox, B.C., and made large collections of both flowering plants 

 and cryptogams, but the study of the latter continued to occupy 

 most of his time. 



He was not far from Sidney, B.C., in 1916. The only trip 

 that he made beyond Victoria was to Brackendale, on the main- 

 land, near the Coast, where he spent three weeks, and collected 

 many species of cryptogams, which do not occur on Vancouver 

 Island. Although he had never used a microscope to any extent 

 in his younger days, after he went to Vancouver Island to live, 

 he procured a very good one, and, by 1916, he was able to deter- 

 mine most of the mosses and lichens himself with the use of it, 

 although he was in constant correspondence with specialists, the 

 bulk of his collections, however, being sent to Dr. John Dearness, 

 London, Ont., who reported on no less than 1,000 specimens dur- 

 ing 1915 and 1916, many of them new to science. 



