PEOCEE DINGS FOE 1894. 



XLV 



"In Nova Scotia a Rpccialty has been made of the observation of the times of the flowering of 

 plants, etc., in addition to the ordinary work going on in all the other provinces. 



"Following the suggestion of ray circular of the 12th April, 1892, observations made at several 

 stations in the province were sent in, from which I select a few by way of example, with the notes 

 made thereon at the time. In oi-der to facilitate the changing of the day of the month into the day 

 of the jear and vice versa, note the number of the day of the year coi'responding to the last day of 

 each month for 1892. January 31, February 60, March 91, April 121, May 152, June 182, July 213, 

 August 244, September 274, October 305, November 335, Decembei- 3iJ6. Such a table may be found 

 convenient when a calendar giving the day of the year with the day of the month is not at hand. 

 For the record book, the day of the month is probably in all cases the safest for general use. The date 

 can be readily converted from the day of the month to the day of the year when necessary for aver- 

 aging for a district. 



"Natural history observations for the year 1892, as recommended by the committee of the 

 Eoyal Society of Canada. Observers, Lunenburg county, Dr. Hamilton ; Mahone Bay ; Hants 

 county', Harry Piers, Windsor; King's county. Pi of. A. E. Coldwoll, Acadia College, Wolfville (this 

 column being the average of four sub-stations in the county) ; Cumberland County at Amherst, B. J. 

 Laj- ; at Springhill, N. D. MacTavish ; the average of whose figures form the column for the county. 

 (Fourteen, selected as sample of method of averaging for a province.) 



" In all good common schools, and especially in every high school and county academy, there could 

 be compiled from year to year and carefully preserved for comparison, with very great advantage to 

 the stimulation of the observing instinct of ])upils and even of more mature students, and to the 

 general development of the scientific habit and culture in the community, local lists of the times of 

 flowering, etc , of plants, to be permanently kept in the archives of the school. From year to year 

 these might also be reported to county or provincial centres, with much addition of interest to the 

 local work." [Summaries of these local observations might be published annually in the transactions 

 of local societies or in the local newspapers. Provincial summaries might in like manner be pub- 

 blished in the transactions of provincial societies or in the provincial newspapers. Local and provin- 

 cial statistics could then at any time be collated and compiled for Dominion or continental range.] 

 "All schools making observations should most punctiliously receive credit for their contribution to 



