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 puUishing annually similar observations, 

 covering Europe from Wales to Austria and from the Baltic to 

 Switzerland, with nearly pne hnndied 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 of the schedules of 

 the n jrth and eastern meteorological regions, I have pleasure in 



