LXXXVI THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



The automatic apparatus at Camperdown, N.S., for repeating 

 from land line to wireless has continued in operation. Navigators 

 within the zone of that station are thus able to pick up this signal. 

 Time balls at St. John and Halifax have been dropped each week-day 

 at 1 p.m. Standard time of the 80th Meridian. The synchronizing 

 signal for the Halifax clock which automatically drops the Time Ball 

 has been sent every week-day morning at 10 a.m., excepting occasions 

 of wire trouble when it was hourly repeated, until satisfactorily 

 received. 



Respectfully submitted. 



R. F. Stupart, 



Director. 



Phenological Observations, Canada, 1913. 



The collection of phenological statistics by the Meteorological 

 Service is in charge of Mr. F. F. Payne, of the Central Office, Toronto, 

 and the following report for 1913 has been prepared by him. 



"Of the phenological observations in Canada for 1913, those in 

 Nova Scotia as usual take first place, and although great efforts 

 have been made to arouse similar interest in other provinces, they 

 have so far failed. If the various departments of education could 

 be induced to make the collection of phenological statistics part of 

 the nature study in their schools, much valuable work from a climato- 

 logical point of view might be done. If, too, the children in the 

 various schools were made aware of the fact that their bringing the 

 first blooms in spring to their teachers for identification and record 

 was highly valued, it would add much to their interest in the work 

 and make that part of nature study and teaching much easier. Great 

 credit is due Dr. A. H. Mackay, Superintendent of Education for Nova 

 Scotia for the lead he has taken in this direction, and the work per- 

 formed by him and his assistants; also his valuable co-operation in 

 supplying tables for that Province is much appreciated by the Meteor- 

 ological Service." 



"In the selection of the fifty phenological items contained in 

 the Meteorological Service schedules, it was of first importance 

 to have common or well-known plants, etc., also such as are to be 

 found in most portions of Canada, in order that the dates from each 

 district might be compared. Due consideration was also given to 

 the importance of obtaining observations from swamp, wood and field. 

 More items might be added, but the more formidable the list the 

 fewer the observers, and the most valuable observations are those 



