LU ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



IX. — Fniin The Botanical Cliih of Canada, through Dr. Mackay. 



Durinc; the past year the Botanical Club of Canada has done more 

 than averao-e work : Manitoba and the adjacent west reporting the most 

 vigorous advance of the season. Some of this work will be alluded to in 

 the latter portion of this. report. 



The club has to de])]ore the great loss svistained in the death of 

 its chief founder and only president since the organization of the club in 

 1891, Professor George Lawson, PhD,, LL.D., who was also a president 

 of the Eoyal Society, the sixth on its roll. He was also the originator 

 and mainstay of the " Botanical Society of Canada," whose proceed- 

 ino-s and transactions were published at Kingston, Ontario, between 

 the years 1858, when he came to Queen's University from Edinburgh, 

 until 1863, when he accepted a professorship in the University of Dal- 

 housie, at Halifax, Nova Scotia. His services in the interests of science 

 and his adopted country will be elsewhere recorded. He died, after a 

 brief illness (paralysis), at his home in Halifax, on the lOth of November, 

 1895, leaving behind him a record of one of the most active and useful 

 lives, and the memory of a most accomplished, graceful and lovable 

 personality. 



At the annual meeting oi' the club, which has just been held, the 

 following were elected officers for the coming year : 



President, John Macoun, M.A., F.L.S.. Ottawa, Ontario. 



General Secretary-Treasurer, A. H. Mackay, LL.D., Halifax, N.S. 



Secretaries for the Provinces. 



Newfoundland — Rev. A. C. Waghorne, St. John's. 



Prince Edward Island— Principal John McSwain, Charlottetown. 



Nova Scotia— Dr. A. H. Mackay (Gen. Sec-Treas.), Halifax. 



New Brunswick— Principal G. U. Hay, M.A., Ph.B., St, John. 



Quebec— Prof. D. P. Penhallow, B.Sc.,McGill University, Montreal. 



Ontario — Vice-Prin. William Scott, B.A., Nornuxl School, Toronto, 



Manitoba — Rev. W. A. Burman, B.D., Winnipeg, 



Assiniboia — Thomas R. Donnelly, Esq., Pheasant Forks. 



Alberta— T. N. Willing, Esq., Olds. 



Saskatchewan — Rev. C. W, j^rydcn, Battleford. 



British Columbia (mainland) — Albert J. Hill, M.A., Westminster. 

 " (Vancouver Isl'd) — A. J. Pineo. B.A., High School, Victoria. 



Rej)orts, and lists of plants, and phenological observations from 

 members in the various provinces were presented and discussed. In 

 addition to the general objects of the club referi'ed to in the original 

 draft of the constitution, the following lines of work were strongly re- 

 commended to the attention of all members : 



