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intend to print it in the form of a letter, and to send copies to a certain 

 number of stations in Britain and on the Continent, in order to get the 

 blanks filled up, and the letters returned to us at the end of exery year. 

 We propose that the calendar shall commence from January next, and we 

 intend the stations to be as follows : — 



In England and Wales. — * London, Canterbury, Salisbury, Exeter, Ply- 

 mouth, * Penzance, Bristol, Swansea, Milford Haven, Holyhead, Chester, 

 Carlisle, Berwick, Newcastle, Durham, Hull, Lincoln, Yarmouth, Norwich, 

 Ipswich, * Bungay, Cambridge, Oxford, Birmingham, Shrewsbury, Derby, 

 York, * Worcester, * Hereford, Broomsgrove, Kendall, and Hexham. 



In Scotland. — * Haddington, * Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness, 

 Thurso, * Kirkwall, Ullapool, Stornaway, Benbecula, Rum, Fortwilliam, 

 Kilbride, Inverary, Stirling, Dunkeld, * Annat Gardens near Perth, Fal- 

 kirk, Lanark, and Dumfries. • 



In Ireland. — * Belfast, Londonderry, Enniskillen, Ballinrobe, Galway, 

 Limerick, * Cork, Cashel, Wexford, Mullingar, and Dublin. 



On the Continent. — * Paris, Bourdeaux, Marseilles, Nice, Milan, Florence, 

 Rome, * Naples, Geneva, BolM'Jller, Vienna, Dresden, * Berlin, Hamburgh, 

 Brussels, Leyden, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Dantzic, * Warsaw, Moscow, 

 *Petersburgh, and Stockholm. 



We shall be ghid to add other places to this list, as the greater the 

 number of points, so much the more useful will be the information. We 

 know of individuals who will undertake the calendar at the places 

 marked (*), and we should be glad of offers for the remainder or for places 

 near them, and for any other places that may be the residences of persons 

 friendly to the pursuits of natural history and to -this Magazine. We are 

 also desirous of receiving such remarks and criticisms as may occur to the 

 reader, on the choice of places and plants, so as to profit by them, and 

 improve the lists before printing them for distribution. We shall therefore 

 not print them for three months to come. We shall send them to their 

 destinations in November next; and, on receiving them in January, 1830, 

 filled up, we shall then present them in a tabular form, and so compressed 

 as to occupy only a page or two. In January, 1831, on receiving the lists 

 for 1850, we shall arrange them in like manner, and so on yearly. At the 

 ends of stated periods of years, say 7, 14, 21, &c., averages will be given, in 

 order, as much as possible, to generalise the information obtained. If any 

 eorrespondent can suggest any more useful plan, or any improvement on 

 this plan, we shall feel exceedingly obliged to him. 



It may be necessary to premise, that in order to fill up the blanks under 

 meteorology, a daily register will require to be kept of the thermometer, 

 taken about nine o'clock in the morning ; of the barometer, taken about 

 the same time; of the rain, taken, every three or four days; and of the 

 other particulars daily, after the day has passed. 



Skeleton Calendar for the Magazine of Natural Histort/, as kept at , 



in the of , being in latitude and longitude 



, distant from the sea about miles, and nearly 



feet above the level thereof: the soil being , on 



a subsoil of • % Mr. 



Flora for January 18 . — The following plants flowered, viz., the sweet- 

 scented coltsfoot on the , Christmas rose , winter aconite , 

 barren strawberry , snowdrop , the hazel on the , and 

 the jPyrus japonicai. Cydonia japonica Lind., on the 



Fauna. — Fieldfares and redwings remain on the , the early song 



of the following birds heard, viz., the common wren on the , the 



hedge-sparrow , the song-thrush , and the missel-thrush on the 



. The marsh titmouse begins his spring note on the , the nut- 



hatch on the . Trout leave their spawning-places on the 



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