CXX ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
In Denmark, M. J. Mathiassen, Mullerup Skole. pr. Slagelse, Jan. 
1902, issued a schedule of local nature observations for use in the pub- 
lic schools as in Nova Scotia. The introduction of the Nova Scotian 
plan into Denmark is due mainly to the sketches of it published by an 
eminent educationist, Carl Michelsen, of Skanderborg, well known in 
literature and art, and vice-president of the “Union Idéaliste Uni- 
verselle.” ‘The schedule is a preliminary one, providing for over fifty 
items of observations. In the interesting page of directions to teach- 
ers and other observers, the following sentence occurs: “ Som en saadan 
Forberedelse, synes jeg, de Naturiagttagelser, som Hr. Skoleinspektor 
Michelsen, Skanderborg har gjort opmærksom paa foretages i kana- 
diske Skoler, fortrinlig vil egne sig”. (By way of introduction it 
appears that the nature-observations carried on in Canadian schools 
and reported upon by Herr Michelsen, of Skanderborg, School Inspec- 
tor, will preeminently serve). 
Phenochron Tables for 1901. 
Two tables are here published. First, the Phenological Observa- 
tions in Nova Scotia, 1901, which are also published in the Transactions 
of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science. Second, the Phenological 
Observations in Canada for 1901, which the said Institute publishes 
from the report of this Club in order to keep the series complete and 
for the purpose of comparison with local phenochrons. 
Nova Scotian Phenochrons. 
About 450 schedules of observations were approved from the 
province of Nova Scotia. These were made in nearly every case by 
the pupils of as many schools under the direction of the teacher. 
Pupils on their way to and from school in the rural districts were kept 
in good-natured rivalry seeking for the first bloom of every kind of 
plant, shrub, or tree, etc., which the happy discoverer must, if possible, 
bring to the school room for positive demonstration and exact deter- 
mination. Over 500 dates of “ first flowering” and “ when flowering 
became common” were in some cases determined in one school section. 
These 450 schedules were divided between four of our best provin- 
cial botanists for study and the compilation of average dates or 
phenochrons for each meteorological region of the province, namely, 
C. B. Robinson, B.A., of Pictou Academy; Principal E. J. Lay, of the 
Amherst Academy; Principal B. McKittrick, B.A., of Lunenburg © 
Academy; and Miss Antoinette Forbes, B.A., of Windsor Academy. 
