LXXIV ROYAL SOCIK'IY OF CANADA 



Officers of the Botanical Club of Canada, 1S98. 



President — John Macoiin, M.A., F.L.S., Ottawa. 



General Secrettary-Treasurer — A. H. MacKay, LL.D., Halifax. 



Secretaries for the several Provinces : 



Newfoundland — Eev. A. C. Waghome, Bay of Islands. 



Prince Edward Island — Principal John MacSwain, Charlottetown. 



Nova Scotia — Dr. A. II. 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. 

 Toronto. 



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



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



Alberta— T. N. Willing, Esq., Olds. 



Saskatchewan — Rev. C. W. Bryden, Willoughby. 



British Columbia (Mainland) — J. K. Henr}^, B.A., High School, 

 Vancouver. 



Vancouver Island — A. J. Pineo, B.A., High School, Victoria. 



Constitution, &c., of the Botanical Club of Canada. 



The Botianical Club of Canada was organized by a committee of 

 section four of the Royal Society of Canada, at its meeting in Montreal, 

 May 29th, 1891. 



The object is to promote by concerted local efforts and otherwise the 

 exploration of the flora of every portion of British America, to publish 

 complete lists of the sfame in local papers as the work goes on, to have 

 these lists collected and carefully examined in order to arrive at a cor- 

 rect knowledge of the precise character of our flora and its geographical 

 distribution, and to carry on systematically seasonal observations on 

 botanical phenomena. 



The intention is to stimulate, with the least possible paraphernalia of 

 constitution or rules, increased activity among botanists in each locality, 

 to create a corps of collecting botanists wherever there may be few or 

 none at present, to encourage the formation of field clubs, to publish 

 list.s of local floras in the local press, to conduct from year to year exact 

 phenological observations, etc. ; for which purposes the secretaries for 

 the provinces may appoint secretaries for counties or districts, who will 



