CCXVI ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



The object is to promote, by concerted local elî'orts and otherwise, 

 the exploration of the flora of every portion of British America, to 

 publish complete lists of the same in local papers as the work goes on, 

 to have these lists collected and carefully examined in order to arrive 

 at a correct knowledge of the precise character of our flora and its 

 geographical distribution, and to carry on systematically seasonal obser- 

 vations on botanical phenomena. 



The intention is to stimulate, with the least possible paraphernalia 

 of constitution or rules, increased activity among botanists in each 

 locality, to create a corps of collecting botanists wherever there may be 

 few or none at present, to encourage the formation of field clubs, to 

 publish lists of local flora in the local press, to conduct from year to 

 year exact phonological observations, etc. ; for which purposes the secre- 

 taries for the provinces may appoint secretaries for counties or districts, 

 who will be expected, in like manner, to transmit the same impetus to as 

 many as possible in their more local spheres of action. 



Members and secretaries, while carrying out plans of operation 

 which they may find to be promising of success in their particular dis- 

 tricts, will report as frequently as convenient to the officer under whom 

 they may be immediately acting. 



Before the end of January, at the latest, reports of the work done 

 within the various provinces during the year ended December the 31st 

 previous, should be made by the secretaries for the provinces to the gen- 

 eral secretary, from which the annual report to the Eoyal Society shall 

 be principally compiled. By the first of January, therefore, the annual 

 reports of county secretaries and members should be sent in to the 

 secretaries of the province. 



To cover the expenses of official printing and postage, a nominal 

 fee of twenty-five cents per annum is expected for membership (or one 

 dollar for five years in advance, or five dollars for life membership). 

 Secretaries for the provinces, when remitting the amount of fees from 

 members to the general treasurer, are authorized to deduct the necessary 

 expenses for provincial office work, transmitting vouchers for the same 

 with the balance. 



The names of those reporting any kind of valuable botanical work 

 during the year will be published in the list of active members, even 

 should the payment of fees be forgotten. All payments are credited to 

 the current year and the future. Lapsed active membership can, there- 

 fore, be restored at any time without the payment of arrears. 



Members of the club are directed for the determination of species 

 to Mr. J. M. Macoun, The Curator, Herbarium of the Geological Survey, 

 Ottawa, Canada, 



