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The New Brunswick Museum, St. John New Brunswick. It was constructed in 1930-32, and opened officially to the public in 1934 (NBM photo).
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... His published works include more than 160 peer-reviewed papers, 20 book chapters, a major edited book on the biodiversity of the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone (McAlpine and Smith 2010a), a co-authored volume on the mammals of Prince Edward Island (Curley et al. 2019), flashcard guides to freshwater mussels (McAlpine et al. 2021b) and freshwater fishes of conservation significance (McAlpine and Karstad in press) in the Maritimes, and many more natural history articles written for magazines, newsletters, and other forums. Don is, equally, and has long been, a generous mentor of students and citizen scientists; an instigator and genial leader of collaborative projects; and a tireless advocate for the key role of natural history museums in documenting and conserving biodiversity (McAlpine 1986(McAlpine , 1993(McAlpine , 2011(McAlpine , 2018a(McAlpine , 2022. ...
... tected Natural Areas, organized a series of broad-based, volunteer-supported biological inventories (Bioblitzes) at the Jacquet River Gorge Protected Natural Area (PNA), the Caledonia Gorge PNA, and the Grand Lake Lowlands PNA (McAlpine 2011). A significant number of Coleoptera specimens were collected during these surveys, many of which were new provincial records and species new to science. ...
The Coleoptera of New Brunswick have generated interest among entomologists for over a century. The first records of Coleoptera from New Brunswick were the adventive Carabus granulatus Linnaeus and Carabus nemoralis Muller collected by W.H. Harrington in Saint John during 1891 (Harrington 1892). The first significant sampling of Coleoptera, and insects in general in New Brunswick, was carried out by members of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick (now the New Brunswick Museum): William McIntosh, Phillip R. McIntosh, A. Gordon Leavitt, and George Morrisey, mostly between 1898 and 1909 (Fairweather and McAlpine 2011). Most of the material was obtained by William McIntosh and A. Gordon Leavitt, who made extensive collections around the Saint John area (Fairweather and McAlpine 2011). By 1914, there were over 24,000 specimens in the Natural History Society of New Brunswick insect holdings, most being Lepidoptera, with about 4,187 specimens of Coleoptera (McIntosh [undated A]). However, only 1,095 of these Coleoptera specimens were still present in the New Brunswick Museum (NBM) holdings in 2010, many apparently were either sent to other people or were lost to insect pests (Fairweather and McAlpine 2011). Among these specimens are the first occurrences of a number of adventive species to the Maritime provinces: Quedius mesomelinus (Marsham) (Staphylinidae) (Majka and Smetana 2007), Attagenus unicolor japonicas Reitter (Dermestidae) (Majka 2007a), Ernobius mollis (Linnaeus) (Ptiliidae) (Majka 2007a), Brachypera zoilus (Scopoli) (Curculionidae) (Majka et al. 2007b), and others, including many that were the first records for New Brunswick and the region.
