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arcliseological and ethnological evidences of the races we have 

 supplanted in Canada, and much more that does not occur to 

 me at the moment. I should not like to suggest a limit of 

 expenditure on such museums. The necessity of a new build- 

 ing at Ottawa is admitted. The crime of leaving exposed to 

 fire, in a wretched building never intended to protect any- 

 thing of value, the precious results of over fifty years of col- 

 lecting, has been pointed out in a recent official report." 

 We now pass on to Botany. 



BOTANY. 



In this science a considerable amount of work has been 

 done by both Government explorers and private collectors. 

 The work of Professor J. Macoun has been already referred 

 to as most thorough and valuable. The catalogue prepared 

 by him, and issued by the Geological Survey (for sale by 

 Dawson, Montreal), is indispensable to the student of our 

 native plants. The collections of Dr. Jas. Fletcher, now 

 Botanist and Entomologist to the Department of Agriculture, 

 are next in value as regards this Province. Large collections 

 have, of course, been made by all the expeditions before re- 

 ferred to, and by later explorers connected with the Geologi- 

 cal Sur^^ey. Mr. J. M. Macoun has made some journeys to 

 the Northwest for this special purpose, and has added con- 

 siderably to the available material. 



Of local collectors I can only give a partial list. In the 

 Territories, Mr. IST. B. Sanson has made a fine collection of 

 plants at Banff. Mr. T. N. Willing, Territorial Weed In- 

 spector, Mr. P. C. Gregson, Waghorn, Secretary of the North- 

 west Entomological Society, Mr. A. Gaetz, Red Deer, Mr. 

 E, B. Hutcheson, High School, Regina, Mr. J. F. Boyce, 

 High School, Calgary, Mr. Hutchison, Oxbow, Inspectors J. 

 A. Calder, Regina, and J. E. Perrett, Edmonton, and the 

 Rev. C. W. Brydon, Willoughby, have all done work, and 

 some have excellent collections. The Rev. I. O. Stringer has 

 s€'nt in a considerable number of plants from Herschel Is- 

 land, off the mouth of the Mackenzie, where he has lived as 

 a missionary. 



In Manitoba a good many collector have been at work in 

 recent years, especially those connected with various schools. 

 Without pretending to give anything like a complete list, I 



