XIII.— PHENOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, CANADA, 1899, BY A. H. 
MacKay, LL. D. 
(Read 9th April, 1900.) 
The schedule on which the observations referred to here 
were recorded specifies 100 different objects, some with sub- 
divisions. Of the great majority of them, two classes of 
observations are asked to be recorded: ‘“ When first seen,” and 
“When becoming common.” In the tabulated dates recorded 
by the Botanical Club of Canada, given at the end of this 
paper, the first series only is taken. The character of the 
schedule is also indicated in these tables of observations at the 
thirteen stations throughout Canada. 
The identical schedule is also used in the public schools. 
of the Province of Nova Scotia. The observations here are 
made by the pupils in attendance as a part of their “nature 
study,” when going to and returning from school, and are 
tested and recorded by the teacher in duplicate, one copy of 
which is preserved as a local record, and the other is sent with 
the school returns to the Inspector for the Education Office. 
Seven hundred and twenty-five school sections (school 
districts, localities, or stations) returned schedules of observa- 
tions, the majority more full than those of the thirteen stations 
of the Botanical Club reporting. The summation of these in 
tabular form would require a large volume, and cannot, there- 
fore, be attempted here. The schedules are bound up in a 
volume for each year, so that the information may not only be 
preserved for the future use of students, but may be conveniently 
accessible. The series of volumes will be a mine of information 
bearing on at least one phase of the problem of secular variation 
of climate. 
The same ten plants taken last year are here selected from 
the list of one hundred vbjects for the purpose of comparison. 
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