XLIV 



EOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



Newfoundland. — Eev. A. C. Waghornehas made a very good report, indicating a very energetic 

 jn'osecution of the work of collecting and of the determination of the species collected. The follow- 

 ing table summarizes the annual addition to his large list of the previous year (rcfeircd to further on) : 



He is now making up named sets of Newfoundland plants for exchange or sale, and has already 

 received several large orders from abroad. 



Manitoba. — The provincial press republished much of the last report of the club with the result 

 of the stimulation of a considerable degree of botanical intei-cst at various points. 



Saskatchewan. — Collections of plants were being made by the members and some very interest- 

 ing species were reported, especially from Battleford. Members are preparing for the publication of 

 more complete lists of the plants of the district. 



Alberta. — A new provincial secretaiy has just been appointed for this province. 



British Columbia. — From being the most inactive province in connection with Ihe work of the 

 Botanical club, it has this j-ear at one bound become one of the most active under the new provincial 

 secretary, A. J. Pineo,who has issued a circular to the leading botanists, teachers and others interested 

 in natural science, with theresult of enrolling nearly one hundred members. 



I quote the following paragraphs fiom the general secretarj''s report for the year 1892 3 pub- 

 lished on the 1st of March, 1894, in which the membership is given as one hundred and twenty-eight, 

 receipts, $23.50, expenditure, $14.50, leaving a balance in fund.-, at date of $9.00. 



" From Outai-io, .T. Dearness, of London, on the 29th April, 1893, sent a leprint of two papers bj- 

 him — one a study and description of a new fungus (Cylindrosporium Chryaanlhemi) ; the other (with 

 J. B. Ellis) descriptive of twenty new Sphaero'peideœ and Hyphomycetes found at London, Ontario. 

 During the year 1892 he discovered 67 new species of fungi, 29 of them being Pyrenomycetes 

 desci'ibed in the February number of the Proe. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, by Ellis and Everhart, 

 authors of the "Pyrenomycetes of Noith America." lie also makes interesting notes on the distribu- 

 tion, etc., of over twenty species of Phaneiogams. James White sent in a list of mosses collected in 

 the vicinity of Edmonton, Ont., among which are some interesting finds. 



" From Prince Edward Island, F. Bain sent in a printed catalogue of additions to the flora of the 

 island, including 33 Phanerogams and Filices and 63 Algse. 



" Specially worthy of notice is the work of the Rev. A. C. Waghorne, in Newfoundland. He 

 has commenced the publication of the flora of the island in the Proe. and Ti'ans. of the Nova Scotian 

 Institute of Science. In the spring he reported from Labrador to the Islands of St. Pierie and 

 Miquelon, a flora consisting of Phanerogams 907, Acrogens 61, Bryophytes 68, Mosses 285, 

 Lichens 323, Algre 73 ; total 1,617. To this list he added in his last report, from Newfoundland and 

 Labrador, Phanerogams 27, Mosses 34, Algœ 13, Fungi 17, Lichens 87, a total of 151 (120 species 

 and 34 varieties). 



