CXL ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



XXU.—Beport of the Botanical Club of Canada for 1906-7 and 1907-8. 

 By the General Secretary, A. H. MacKay, LL.D. 



During the summer of 1907 I was in Europe at the time the report 

 for 1906 should have been presented. I am therefore now presenting 

 the reports of the last two years together. 



Through the kindness of the Director of the Meteorological Service 

 of the Dominion at Toronto, a large number of observations made on 

 the smaller group of phenomena described in my previous report 

 had been sent to me for the report of 1906, and are marked by an 

 asterisk in the list which follows. 



The corresponding list for 1907 had not been received at the date 

 of compilation, due probably to the non-publication of the observa- 

 tions of the previous year, and my inability to ask in time for any 

 such aid.' My report under the circumstances shall be as brief as 

 possible, the simple presentation of phenological observations which 

 I find at hand. 



Nova Scotia Phenochrons, 1906. 



The first table contains the summary of about three hundred 

 schedules 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 observation being proven and recorded 

 by the teacher, who transmits the schedule with the regular school 

 return to the inspector. The superintendent sends the schedules 

 from specified regions of the province to the following staff of pheno- 

 logists, who are themselves also in the educational service. Their 

 reports can be found in extenso in the April Journal of Education 

 for Nova Scotia, 1907, from pages 79 to 91. They also compile 

 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 were 

 compiled in their turn into the ten regions of the province shown 

 on the said first table by Miss Jean Lindsay, B.A. The said Nova 

 Scotian staff is as follows: 



Region I. (Yarmouth and Digby Counties), A. W. Horner, 

 Principal of Seminary School, Yarmouth. 



Region II. (Shelburne County), C. Stanley Bruce, Shelburne 

 Academy. 



Region II (Queens County), Minnie C. Hewitt, Science 

 Teacher, Lunenburg Academy. 



' This list has since been received and will be found appended to the Report 

 on page clxxxi. 



