1906] 



Nature Study No. 33. 

 NATURE STUDY. No. XXXIII. 



Definite Problems in Nature Study. 

 S. B. Sinclair, M.A., Ph.D. 



Hunto Island, Muskoka, Ont. 

 Eighteen years of unassisted forest growth. 



The following elementary experiment is submitted in the hope 

 that it may be suggestive of others, and also emphasize the funda- 

 mental principle that in beginning Nature Study the main diffi- 

 culty lies in selecting a suitable problem and making a definite 

 and sequential study of the subject chosen. 



FOREST DEVELOPMENT. 



The island of Hunto in Portage Lake, twenty miles south- 

 east of Parry Sound, Ontario, has an area of about seven acres, 

 and, like other islands of the Muskoka region, is simply the sum- 

 mit of an upheaved mountain of Laurentian granite, the highest 

 point being about 80 feet above the level of the surrounding lake. 



