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1883 to 1902. At his death he left in an advanced stage of preparation annotated 

 lists of the floras of the Ottawa region, of Nova Scotia and of Vancouver Island. 



His work as naturalist was by no means confined to plants; several species 

 from the animal kingdom also perpetuate his name. His especial interest in 

 birds is further attested by his "Catalogue of Canadian Birds," published in 

 three parts from 1900 to 1904, republished in one volume with the assistance of 

 his son, J. M. Macoun, in 1909. 



It was only a part of Macoun's comprehensive activities that was devoted 

 to bryology, and the determination of his specimens was entrusted to others. 

 Much of his collecting activity fell between the time of the older group of Ameri- 

 can bryologists and that of the more recent one and recourse was had to Euro- 

 peans. The hepatics were worked over first by Austin, then by the English 

 hepaticologist, Pearson, subsequently by Underwood, Howe, and Evans; their 

 study has developed normally and they are now apparently well understood. 

 Cephalozia Macounii, Odontoschisma Macounii, Lejeunea Macounii a.nd A ntho- 

 ceros Macounii will doubtless perpetuate the memory of their collector. The 

 Sphagna were mostly submitted to the German bryologist, Warnstorf, in the 

 days of his more accurate work, and have caused little trouble. 



The case with the other mosses is entirely different. They passed mostly 

 through the hands of the Swede, Ki-ndberg, who at first worked in collaboration 

 with the German, Carl Miiller (of Halle). Carl Miiller was a specialist who 

 received a large part of the extra-European mosses collected in his day and who 

 developed an irresponsibility as to species from which bryology still suffers. 

 His herbarium is now in the Museum of the Botanical Garden at Berlin-Dahlem 

 and the "Waberlohe" with which it seemed to many of us to have been formerly 

 enclosed appears to have been somewhat reduced, while Fleischer has also begun 

 an apparently praiseworthy revision of its specimens.^ Kindberg showed a still 

 greater species irresponsibility than Miiller. Macoun generously tried to de- 

 fend him, 2 and his fellow-countryman, Arnell, also put in a word in his favor,^ 

 but could certainly not have looked very closely into his specimens. A rather 

 interesting characterization of Kindberg as a field bryologist was given by Roll,* 

 who took part with him in an excursion in Switzerland and Italy. It appears 

 that Kindberg was an enthusiastic lover of nature and an amiable personality. 



The older Macoun and, after his retirement from active service, his son 

 were always ready to loan any specimens to American moss-students who wished 

 light upon Kindberg's "species," and the almost inevitable reductions that 

 followed were borne with apparent philosophical composure, with the faith that 

 science could be depended upon ultimately to straighten out all difficulties. In 

 frequently-arising cases of doubt as to name and duplication the authorities of 

 the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum of Stockholm have been extremely generous 



1 Hedwigia, LV, 280 ff., 1914, and in subsequent volumes. 

 ■ Catalogue of Canadian Plants, VII, p. I\'. 1902. 

 s Botaniska Notiser, 1912, 119 ff. 

 » Hedwigia, LVII, 344 ff. 1916. 



