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ment of Agriculture gives an account of a biologic investigation of the Hud- 
son Bay region. The Ottawa Naturalist 1899 contains an article by M. L. 
FERNALD, on the Northwest Shore of Hudson Bay, and a few years prior to 
this (1895), TYRREL published in the Geographical Journal an account of a 
second expedition through the Barren Lands of Canada. 
The great plains between Manitoba and the Rocky Mountains have 
been pretty thoroughly examined. The collection made by Dr. G. M. Dawson, 
while geologist and naturalist to the boundary commission, embraces the whole 
flora of the 4gth parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains. 
During the summers of 1872, 1875, 1879, 1880, 1881, JOHN MACOUN made 
extensive journeys through both the prairie region and the wooded country 
to the north, as far as latitude 59°, including the whole length of the great 
Peace River. M. BOURGEAU, botanist to Captain PALLISER’S expedition in 
1857—58, made numerous traverses of the country bordering on the Saska- 
tchewan and southward. DOoUGLAs and DRUMMOND explored the whole coun- 
try from the Red and Assiniboine rivers to the Rocky Mountains. The former 
passed across the Rocky Mountains by the Athabasca Pass and examined the 
entire length of the valley of the Columbia, while the latter collected in the 
main range ofthe Rocky Mountains between latitude 52° and 56°, and particul- 
arly in that part about the head of the Smoky River, a tributary of the Peace. 
Sir JOHN RICHARDSON and other arctic explorers have noted and collected 
the plants of the wooded country from Hudson Bay to the Arctic Sea, its 
coasts and islands, including the country north of the Saskatchewan River 
and the whole valley of the Mackenzie River. 
The flora of the Rocky Mountain region proper is still imperfectly 
known. Dr. G. M. Dawson examined the region in the vicinity of South 
Kootanie Pass, near the 4gth parallel, and traversed the mountains by Pine 
Pass in latitude 55°. In September 1879, JOHN Macoun ascended the Bow 
River Pass for a few miles, and obtained some knowledge of its alpine flora. 
BOURGEAU also spent some time in August 1858 in the Bow River Pass and 
on the adjacent mountains and made extensive collections. During his ex- 
plorations with Douglas, DRUMMOND spent a whole summer in the mountains. — 
In 1875 JOHN MACOUN was again in the mountains, ascending the Peace River 
Pass and Mount Selwyn at its western end. Rev. ROBERT CAMPBELL published 
in the Canadian Record of Science a paper on the flora of the Rocky Mount- 
ains. Quite recently, Dr. CHAS. SCHÄFFER and Mrs. SCHÄFFER of Philadelphia 
have spent several summers in the Selkirk mountains collecting and photo- 
graphing the plants. During the months of July and August 1903, 1904 Miss 
EDITH FARR of the University of Pennsylvania collected plants in the neigh- 
borhood of Banff, Field, Glacier, lakes Agnes and Louise and these plants 
are preserved in the herbarium of the University at Philadelphia. Dr. CHAR- 
LES H. SHaw of Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pa., and STEWARDSON BROWN 
of Philadelphia made some extended tours through these mountains and rich 
collections of alpine plants in 1904. 
