APPENDIX B CXIX 
In Ontario there has been an accession of a few able observers. 
In New Brunswick a general exploration of the flora of the island is 
being organized. In Nova Scotia some steps have been taken in the 
same direction, under the leadership of local botanists. In the city 
of Halifax, a local botanical club has been meeting regularly, in the 
winter studying mainly the marine algæ, and in the summer the flower- 
ing plants. 
At Canso the Marine Biological Laboratory of Canada was in 
operation during the summer, under the directorship of Professor Ram- 
say Wright, of the University of Toronto. Professor James Fowler, 
of Queen’s University at Kingston, paid special attention to the botan- 
ical features of the region. 
Professor Robertson, of Ottawa, representing Sir William Mac- 
donald, is now encouraging the cult of nature study in the public 
schools of Canada in a very effective manner. He plans to select some 
of the most promising teachers in each province and send them away 
to the best centres of nature study training in the world; then to 
arrange with the educational authorities to show the effect of good 
objective nature teaching by a teacher who may have ten rural schools 
to give instruction in for half a day each week. As such nature 
teaching must, to a very great extent, be botanical, the movement is 
one which is not only worthy of observation by this Club, but of notice 
and of substantial aid. 
Canadian botanical literature appears to be regularly growing, as 
is indicated by a comparison of the report on the Bibliography of 
Canadian Botany, which has just been presented to the Biological Sec- 
tion of the Royal Society, with the corresponding report of the previous 
year. 
Outside of Canada, Germany leads in the collection of phenological 
data. Dr. E. Ihne, of Darmstadt, has been publishing annually for 
several years, observations from about one hundred stations, more or 
less, extending from Wales to Austria, and from Switzerland to the 
Baltic; as well as a bibliography of phenological literature for each 
year. He gives reports in his “ Phænologische Beobachtungen, Jahr- 
gang, 1901,” (in den Abhandlungen der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft 
in Nürnberg), from eighty-six stations; and he published deductions 
from them on the climate and “ middle dates ” of spring, etc., for sev- 
eral European stations, somewhat as has been done in the Transactions 
of the Institute of Science of Nova Scotia, in “ Natur und Schule,” 
(I. Band. 1902, 3. Heft. Druck und Verlag von B. G. Teubner in 
Leipzig). 
