CCXIV ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



Report of the Botanical Club of Canada for 1908. 

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



(Read by title IMay 26, 1909.) 



ISTovA Scotia Piien-ochrons, 1907-8. 



Tlie 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 observations being, proved and recorded by the teache;-, 

 who transmitted the schedule with the regular school return to the in- 

 spector. The superintendent sends the schedules from each region 

 of the province to the following staff of phenologists, who are them- 

 selves also in the educational service. Their reports can be found in 

 extenso in the April Journal of Education for Nova Scotia, 1908, from 

 pages 90 to 97. 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 pro- 

 vince. These schedules were compiled in their turn into the nine re- 

 gions of the province shown on the said first table by Mr. James MacG. 

 Stewart, B.A. Tlie Nova Scotian phenological stafï is as follows: 



Region I. (Yarmouth and Digby Counties), A. W. Hoviiov. Prin- 



cipal of Seminary School, Yarmouth. 



Eegion IT. (Shelburne County), C. Stanley Bruce, Ins]U'etor of 

 Schools. 



Eegion IT. (}'\vcn:i County), Minnie C. Hewitt, Science Teacher, 

 Lunenburg Academy. 



Eegion IT. (Lunenburg County), Burgess Mclvittrick, B.A., Prin- 

 cipal, Lunenburg Academy. 



Eegion TTT. (]\ing>; and Annapolis Counties), Ernest Eobinson 

 B.A., Principal, Horton Academy. 



Eegion IV. (Hants and south Colchester), Geo. W. ]\laclvcnzie, B.A., 

 Academy, Truro. 



Eegion Y. (Halifax and Guysboro Counties), G. E. Bancroft, B.A., 

 Science Master, Halifax County Academy. 



Eegion VI. A and B. (Cobequid Slope), E. J. Lay, Principal, 

 Amhprst Academy. 



Eegion VII. (Cumberland and North Colchester), E. J. I^ay, Prin- 

 cipal, x'\mherst Academy. 



