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A new plaque at the Canadian Museum of Nature will honour John Macoun, an irascible and self-promoting Irishman who travelled across Canada collecting and studying our plants in our early years as a nation.
A field naturalist and scientist, John Macoun (1831-1920) was the first to survey, document, and categorize Canadian flora in a systematic manner. He devoted his life to collecting botanical specimens that later formed the core of Canada’s national collection, which is now at the museum.
Many of the plants that he dried and brought back are still available for study today.
Macoun was profiled in this newspaper’s Canada 150 series called Builders of the Capital.
He was largely self-taught. When he came to the museum in the early 1880s, he brought a large collection with him that he had already gathered on his own — tens of thousands of plants, a number that grew as he did government research. His title was Dominion botanist.
The plaque will be unveiled at 10 a.m. Saturday by Environment Minister Catherine McKenna. It will join one presented last fall honouring James Fletcher, the Dominion entomologist; these two laid the foundations of federal government research in biology.
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A field naturalist and scientist, John Macoun (1831-1920) was the first to survey, document, and categorize Canadian flora in a systematic manner. He devoted his life to collecting botanical specimens that later formed the core of Canada’s national collection, which is now at the museum.
Many of the plants that he dried and brought back are still available for study today.
Macoun was profiled in this newspaper’s Canada 150 series called Builders of the Capital.
He was largely self-taught. When he came to the museum in the early 1880s, he brought a large collection with him that he had already gathered on his own — tens of thousands of plants, a number that grew as he did government research. His title was Dominion botanist.
The plaque will be unveiled at 10 a.m. Saturday by Environment Minister Catherine McKenna. It will join one presented last fall honouring James Fletcher, the Dominion entomologist; these two laid the foundations of federal government research in biology.
tspears@postmedia.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
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