488 PHENOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS IN NOVA SCOTIA 
future learning is, for general purposes, of little real value, and 
at the same time it makes the life of the pupil on the road a 
healthful and happy one by the added interest of the chase. 
For some years Professor Ihne of Darmstadt, Germany, has 
been collecting and pulJlishing annually similar observations, 
covering Kurope from Wales to Austria and from the Baltic to 
Switzerland, with nearly one hundred individual observers. 
The object here is the minor one of obtaining phenological data, 
as it is with the Botanical Club of Canada. 
But within the last year the Natural History Society of 
British Columbia issued a similar schedule, specially adapted to 
the west side of the continent, which has been sent to the 
teachers of the public schools, in order to obtain the educational 
benefit for the pupils all over the country, while at the same 
time securing more valuable phenological data than is possible 
otherwise. 
In Denmark the same plan is also being tried this year on 
the recommendation of Carl Michelsen, School Inspector, Skan- 
derborg. M. J. Mathiassen, Mullerup, Skole pr. Slagelese, 
issues an admirable schedule, with very effective instructions 
for teachers. 
The phenochrons in the tables being the means of a number 
of dates, as a rule contain fractions, which for the sake of 
compactness, as no material difference is made, are omitted. 
The treatment of the thunderstorm observations in a compact 
form appeared to be impossible, so that they are omitted from 
the Nova Scotian table. They may be considered by themselves 
on a future occasion. 
The original schedules are carefully preserved, bound up in 
a handsome volume,—one each year. Over five hundred obser- 
vations have been sent in with some schedules. The com- 
pendiums made for each belt of each region are also thus 
preserved for the use of future students of weather and of the 
changes of climate. 
As a portion of the result of the study ef the schedules of 
the north and eastern meteorological regions, I have pleasure in 
