CXIV ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
DISSOLUTION OF THE BoTANICAL CLUB OF CANADA. 
The Club which was organized on the 29th of May, 1891, by a Com- 
mittee of Section IV of the Royal Society of Canada, at its meeting in 
Montreal, was formally dissolved at the Ottawa meeting of the Royal 
Society, on the 28th of September, 1910. 
The reasons were: First, the impossibility of holding representative 
meetings of the Club on account of the great expense of its members 
meeting annually at one centre from the distant provinces of the Do- 
minion. Second, the only successful work of the Club was the collection 
of phenological statistics, the expense of which (with the exception of the 
printing of the phenological summaries by the Royal Society) was borne 
entirely for many years by the Secretary. Third, this work has now 
been very successfully undertaken by the Meteorological Service (as 
indicated above), and it is expected will in future be carried on even 
more effectively. Fourth, the stimulation of botanical exploration and 
research, one of the most important original objects of the Club, can now 
be more effectively guided by the botanical officials at Ottawa. 
The dissolution of the Club does not, therefore, indicate retrogres- 
sion. It indicates evolution—expansion from voluntary club work to 
the permanently subsidized and well-staffed departments of Meteorology 
and Biology of the Dominion of Canada. 
Nova SCOTIAN PHENOCHRONS. 
(See Map on next page showing the Counties and the 
ten phenological regions.) 
Instructions for the Compilation of the “Region” and “Belt” 
phenochrons of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada, which are further 
averaged so as to give the phenochrons for each region in the following 
table. 
Each province may be divided into its main climatic slopes or regions 
which may often not be coterminous with the boundaries of counties. 
Slopes, especially those to the coast, should be subdivided into belts 
such as (a) the coast belt, (b) the low inland belt, and (ce) the high inland 
belt. 
In Nova Scotia the following regions are marked out, proceeding 
from South to North, and from East to West, as orderly as possible: 
