LIT ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
XXV.—From The Botanical Club of Canada, through 
Dr. A. H. MacKay. 
During the past year, 1899, the work of the club has been on the 
same lines as indicated in detail in the report of the previous year. 
In Nova Scotia over 800 schedules of observations representing 
fully every county in the province, have been filled and sent in to the 
education department. Summaries of and inferences from these will be 
published elsewhere this year as soon as the necessary compilations are 
made. In the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, some interest in this 
public school phase of recording observations has been taken, the Nova 
Scotia schedule being used. As mentioned in last year’s report, hun- 
dreds of these schedules are much more full than, and presumably as 
accurate as, those appended hereto, filled at the thirteen stations from St. 
Stephen and Yarmouth to Vancouver by members of the Botanical Club. 
There was no extraordinary development of botanical activity in the 
usual lines in the different provinces during the year. The opening of 
the Marine Biological Laboratory of Canada at St. Andrews, New Bruns- 
wick, was an important event in a new direction. The laboratory will 
remain at the same place during the present season. 
Officers of the Botanical Club of Canada, 1899. 
President—John Macoun, M.A., F.L.S., Ottawa. 
General Secretary-Treasurer—A. H. MacKay, LL.D., Halifax. 
Secretaries for the several Provinces : 
Newfoundland—Rev. A. C. Waghorne.* 
Prince Edward Island—Principal John MacSwain, Chavous 
Nova Scotia—Dr. A. H. MacKay (General Sec.-Treas.), Halifax. 
New Brunswick—George U. Hay, M.A., Ph.B., St. John. 
Quebec—Prof. D. P. Penhallow, B.Sc., McGill University, Montreal. 
Ontario—Principal William Scott, B.A., Normal 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. Bryden, Willoughby. 
British Columbia (Mainland)—J. K. Henry, B.A., High School, 
Vancouver. 
Vancouver Island—A. J. Pineo, B.A., High School, Victoria. 

1 On account of ill-health he passed the winter in Jamaica, and as we go to press 
we have a newspaper report of his death.—Ep. 

