6 Part I. Chapter 1. 
British Columbia also still requires much attention. Besides the early 
explorers mentioned by Hooker, JoHN MAcouN during the early part of 1875 
made collections of plants on Vancouver Island and in the valley of the 
Fraser River from the coast to Fort McLeod at the western base of the 
Rocky Mountains in latitude 55°. G. M. Dawson collected on Vancouver 
Island in the valley of the Fraser in the country lying west of it to the coast 
ranges in 1875— 76, and during the summer of 1879, a traverse was made 
to the Rocky mountains by way of the Skeena River. The results of these 
‚and other expeditions are given in the Reports of the Geological and Natural 
History Survey of Canada for 1875—76, 1876—77, 1879—80, 1882—84. JOHN 
MacouN contributed to Garden and Forest in 1888 an article on the Forests 
of Vancouver Island and to the same periodical an account of the mountain 
forests of that island. M. LAPATECKI contributed an article to the West Ame- 
rican Scientist in 1899 on the Trees of British Columbia, and GEO. M. DAWSON 
to the Canadian Naturalist notes on the distribution of some of the more im- 
portant trees of British Columbia with maps. A. J. Hırı in 1880—82 investig- 
ated the flora of the Fraser and Thompson rivers. WILFRED H. OSGOOD, 
under the auspices of the Division of Biological Survey, United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, gives a description in bulletin number 2ı of the natural 
history of the Queen Charlotte islands and of their flora.. The algae of 
the coast are adequately treated in a monograph by WILLIAM A. SETCHELL 
and N. L. GARDNER entitled Algae of Northwestern America issued in the Uni- 
versity of California publications on botany, 1903. S. A. SKINNER contributes 
to our knowledge of the Algae of Port Renfrew in Minnesota Botanical Studies 
(third series Part II, 145). 
The Flora of Alaska has been investigated by a number of botanists. 
J. T. ROTHROCK in the Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1867 published 
his Flora of Alaska. JoHN MUIR is the author of the pages on botany in the 
report of the cruise of the Revenue Steamer Corwin in Alaska and the north- 
west Arctic Ocean in 1881 (Washington 1883). THOMAS MEEHAN in the 
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for 1884 
published a Catalogue of Plants collected in July 1883 during an excursion 
along the Pacific coast in southeastern Alaska. In the Annual Report of the 
Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada (1887—88) is published an 
account of the flora of Chilkoot Pass and in the first and third appendices of 
that report appear accounts of the vegetation of the Yukon district. GEORGE 3 
M. DAWSON has an article in Garden and Forest for 1888 on the forest trees 
of the far northwest and THOMAS MEEHAN in Gardener’s Chronicle (1894 
P- 732) on the Alaskan forest. GRACE E. COOLEY gives a list of plants co- 
lected in Alaska and Nanaimo 1891 in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club = 
A list of plants collected near Muir Glacier is given in the National Geo- 
graphic Magazine (1892, p. 79) by W. W. ROWLEE. FREDERICK V. COVILLE 
and FREDERICK FUNSTON describe the Botany of Yakutat Bay, Alaska in the 
third volume of Contributions from the U. S. National RE (1895, P- 325). 
