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tricts, and before the next meeting (May, IQ05) send this to the 

 General Secretary, Dr. A. H. MacKay, Halifax, N.S., for incor- 

 poration in the annual report of the Club. In addition to the 

 phenological observations it was thought that members of the 

 Club might take up some other kind of definite co-operative work. 

 The members present at the St. John meeting recommended that 

 the special work for this season should be a careful examination 

 of Volume I. of Macoun's Catalogue, and the preparation of a 

 report on such extensions of range, or changes in geographical 

 distribution of Canadian plants as had been discovered since the 

 publication of the three parts forming Volume I. of Macoun's 

 Catalogue of Plants (1883, 1884, 1886). It was agreed that it 

 would be well if each local Secretary when reporting would make 

 suggestions as to any other lines of investigation or special study 

 which he thought would be useful in the development of Botanical 

 science and suitable for the consideration of the Club. 



It was further recommended that collections of the local floras 

 of each province be made and kept in some central locality, such 

 as the Normal Schools. The students of these schools during the 

 term could be instructed and guided in the making of proper 

 herbarium specimens of plants ; and on their return to the various 

 sections as teachers should be impressed with the advantage of 

 wotking up the local flora ot each section and making additions 

 from these to the herbarium already started in the Normal School. 

 Such collections would be advantageous from many points of view, 

 but chiefly in the stimulus they would give to local botanists. If the 

 grounds around each Normal School were sufficiently large, it 

 would be a good idea to plant in them some native trees, shrubs, 

 field flowers and ferns of the locality. These might well form an 

 adjunct of school gardens, where established, and be an object 

 lesson to show how weP some of our native plants are adapted for 

 ornamental purposes. e* ' 



As the algae (of ou» coast and inland waters), the fungi, 

 lichens, mosses and ferns are scarcely known in comparison with 

 our flowering plants, it would be well for students to turn their 

 attention to these, especially as the best time for studying many 

 forms such as lichens, fungi and algas, is in the early autumn, 

 when the interest in flowering plants has diminished. 



