Phexological Observations in Canada, 1903. — By A. H. 

 MacKay, LL. D., F. R. S. C, Halifax. 



{Read '.Hh May, lUO!,). 



Observers etc. for the Ffrst Table, Canada, 1903. 



Nova Scotia : The average of about 300 selected schedules. 



Prince Edward Island : Mr. John MacSwain, Charlottetown. 



New Brunswick : Geortre U. Hay, D. Sc, F. R. 8. C, Saint 

 John ; J. Baxter, M. D., Chatham. 



Quebec : Miss A. M. Dresser, Francois Xavier, Brompton, 

 Richmond Co.; Miss J, M. Varney, Richmond, Richmond Co. 



Ontario : Cephas Guillet, Ph.D., Ottawa ; Mr. A. B. Klugh, 

 Guelph, Wellington Co.; Mrs. F. E. Webster, Creemore, Simcoe 

 Co.; J. H. Elliott, M. B., Gravenhurst, Muskoka. 



Assiniboia : Mr. Thos. K. Donnelly, Pheasant Forks. 



Alberta : Mr. Percy B. Gregson, Blackfalds. 



British Columbia : J, K. Henry, B. A., Vancouver. 



The first table of phenochrons contains the observ^ations of 

 this staff" of observers at the stations indicated, the observ^ations 

 being confined to the " time when first seen " except where 

 indicated in a few cases. 



Phenological Observations, Second Table, Nova Scotia, 1903. 



The second table gives the phenochrons for each of the ten 

 biological regions into which the Province of Nova Scotia has 

 been provisionally subdivided, each phenochron being the average 

 of a few or many observations within the region. Over 300 

 selected schedules of observations are represented in this sum- 

 mation. 



The schedule of the school teachers who directed the 

 observations at each school were sent in at the end of the 

 school year to the Inspectors who transmitted them to the 

 Superintendent of Education for the province, who in turn 

 .submitted them to the following staff for criticism, selection, 

 and compilation into "belt" and "region" phenochrons. The 



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