CXVIII ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
2nd Vice-President—Lady Ritchie. 
3rd Vice-President—Mme. Pigeon. 
4th Vice-President—Mrs. Ells. 
Vice-Presidents—Lady Bourinot, Lady Davies, Lady Strong, 
Mrs. Foster, Mrs. Friel, Mme. Girouard, Mrs. G. E. King, Mrs. 
Goodeve, Mrs. J L. McDougall, Mrs. H. Pinhey, Mrs. Roper, Mrs. 
Burbidge, Mrs. A. Burritt, Mrs. Chas. O’Connor. 
Recording Secretary—Miss Alice Burbidge. 
Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Wallbridge Howard. 
Treasurer—Mrs. Ahearn. 
Librarian—Miss M. A. Northwood. 
Scrapbook Committee—Miss Horsey, convener, Miss Masson, Miss 
Read. 
Executive Committee—Mrs. Sedgewick, Mrs. Martin Griffin, Mrs. 
Costigan, Mrs. W. W. Campbell, Mme. Leliévre, Mme. Lamothe, Mrs. 
TJ. Allan Bate, Mrs. J. L. McDougall, Jr., Miss Jamieson, Miss Read. 
XXVII.— From The Botanical Club of Canada, through 
Dr. A. H. MacKay, LL.D. 
During the year I sent out a circular with copies of reports and 
other phenological papers to botanists and those likely to take an 
interest in some department of the work of the Club. I am hopeful 
of obtaining observers for the report of phenological data from the 
Yukon to Newfoundland from the tenor of the responses received. It 
often happens, however, that the daily routine of duties sometimes 
obliterates a momentary resolve to carry out a continuous series of 
such observations. But, if only a few observations, even for the spring 
months alone, can be obtained from the more distant points, the 
information will be of great interest and worth the general expendi- 
ture of time and energy. 
The greatest activity in the extension of phenological observations 
must this year be credited to British Columbia, where the Natural 
History Society of the province issued a circular to teachers in the 
public schools, and an admirable schedule specially adapted to the 
western side of the Dominion. The province of Quebec came next, 
due mainly to the work of Principal John A. Dresser, M.A., of St. 
Francis College, Richmond. 
The British Columbia schedule provides for the description of the 
locality, for the meteorological phenomena, for six migration items, 
seven farming operations, flowering and fruiting of thirteen cultivated 
plants, and the first flowering and “ when becoming common ” of fifty- 
four named and thirty-seven unnamed plants. 
