Publications

It is proposed to issue annual reports giving a summary of the work done in the various departments of the Botanical Office during the previous year.

The progress of the Botanical Garden, Herbarium, and botanical survey work will be accompanied by a brief account of research carried on in the office.

It is proposed to issue bulletins from time to time giving contributions to our knowledge of the flora of British Columbia. These will contain detailed accounts of investigations made relating to particular native genera, to ecological or phytogeographical studies, and to histological research carried on in the laboratory.

With a view to assisting and encouraging nature-study in schools throughout the Province, it is proposed to issue from time to time leaflets dealing with particular subjects or features of plant-life in the Province. The information given in these will be of a more or less popular nature, differing from the bulletins, which must necessarily be more or less technical.

In the leaflets it is proposed that such subjects as the following will be taken up:

1. School gardens for the supply of specimens for nature-study
2. The preparation of school herbaria.
3. A series of lessons on our native plants. Part 1: Dry Belt plants. Part 2:
   Alpine plants. Part 3: Bog-plants. Part 4: Pollination. Part 5: Methods of
   seed-dispersal, etc.

In these, special attention will be given to the native flora on account of the fact that it differs so markedly from that east of the Rockies.