APPENDIX E CXI 
During the year 1909 eight meetings of the Society were held and 
nine meetings of the Council, at which much business was transacted and 
seven papers were read. 
A proposal has been favorably received by the Society for a cele- 
bration in some public manner of the 250th anniversary of the estab- 
lishment of Montreal as a trading post, by Samuel de Champlain in 1611. 
The form has not yet been fixed. x 
The officers for the year 1910, are 
President —Judge L. W. Sicotte. 
Vice-Presidents—W. D. Lighthall, K.C., James Reid, Chs. T. Hart, 
Ludger Gravel, L. G. A. Cressé, K.C., Mr. Justice Eug. Lafontaine. 
Honorary Treasurer—George Durnford, F.C.A. 
Honorary Curator—R. W. McLachlan. 
Honorary Recording Secretary—C. A. Harwood, B.C.L. 
Honorary Corresponding Secretary—Pemberton Smith. 
Honorary Librarian—Victor Morin, LL.B. 
Council—P. O. Tremblay, A. S. Hamelin, G. N. Moncel, A. Chaussé 
S. M. Baylis, J.C. A. Heriot, R. Pinkerton, Rev. N. Dubois, 8. W. Ewing. 
XXI.—Report of the Botanical Club of Canada for 1910. 
Presented by Dr. A. H. MacKay, F.R.S.C.. General Secretary, and 
Delegate. 
TaBLeE I., Nova Scotia PHENOCHRONS, 1908-9. 
The first table contains the summary of about three hundred sche- 
dules of observations made in as many of the public schools of the 
province by the pupils attending school, from a radius of about two miles 
around each school. The observations are proved and recorded by the 
teacher, who transmits the schedule with the regular school return 
to the inspector for the Superintendent. The Superintendent sends 
the schedules from each region of the province to a staff of phenologists. 
Their general reports can be found in the April Journal of Education 
for Nova Scotia, 1910, from pages 85 to 97. They also compile the 
schedules showing the average dates (phenochrons) of the various 
phenomena for the coast belt, the low inland belt and the high inland 
belt, of each special region of the province. These schedules are 
compiled finally into the nine regions of the province, shown on the 
said first table by Mr. James Mac. G. Stewart, B.A. The Nova Scotian 
phenological staff is as follows:— 
Region I. (Yarmouth and Digby Counties), A. W. Horner, Prin- 
cipal of Seminary School, Yarmouth. 
