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JAMES M. MACOUN 



(with portrait) 



James M. Macoun died on January 8, 1920, in Ottawa, Canada. 

 During the previous summer, while exploring Jasper Park and adjoin- 

 ing territory in British Columbia, he was taken ill, and on his return to 

 Ottawa in the fall his condition gradually became worse, until the end 

 came. Being an excellent man and an accomplished naturalist his 

 death will be mourned far beyond the confines of this continent, for 



Mr. Macoun was an excep- 

 tionally active man, who 

 kept in constant touch with 

 learned men and institutions 



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nearly all over the world. 

 His career covers a great 

 field. He was born in Brock- 

 ville in 1862, and when 

 his father, Professor John 

 Macoun, took charge of the 

 botanical and zoological work 

 of the Geological Survey, 

 James Macoun became his 

 assistant in 1883. 



From the time he entered 

 the service, Macoun special- 

 ized in botany, and in addi- 

 tion to other duties assisted 

 Professor John Macoun in 

 the preparation and publica- 

 tion of over 1200 pages of botanical work, and two editions of an 

 annotated list of the birds of the Dominion. He was appointed 

 Assistant Naturalist in 1898, and Botanist in 1917. Since 191 1, 

 when his father moved to British Columbia, much greater responsi- 

 bility was thrown on him. In 1918, because of his wide knowledge in 

 the different branches of natural history, he was appointed Chief of the 



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