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XX. 



REPORT ON PHENOLOGICAL PHENOMENA OBSERVED IN 

 HERTFORDSHIRE DURING THE YEAR 1906. 



By Edwaed Mawley, F.E.Met. Soc, F.E.H.S., V.M.H. 



Read at Watford, 23rd April, 1907. 



All parts of the county are well represented witli the exception 

 of the north-east portion, which unfortunately still lacks an 

 observer. I regret to announce the retirenaent of Mr. Henry 

 Lewis, of St. Albans, who for many years past has sent in such 

 interesting returns as to the arrival of birds. Fortunately, 

 another keen bird observer, Mr. W. P. Westell, has kindly taken 

 his place, so that the number of observers and of observing 

 stations remains the same as in the last report. 



The following table gives the list of observers, the districts 

 they represent, and the approximate height of the stations above 

 sea-level. Three of the stations are just outside our county 

 boimdary, Harefield being in Middlesex, Chesham in Bucks, and 

 Odsey in Cambridgeshire. The sequence is from south to north. 



Station. 



Harefield (The Scrubbs) 



Watford (Weetwood) 



Chesham (Canuon Mill Cottage) 



Broxbourue 



St. Albaus (New Farm) 



St. Albans (Glenferrie Road) 



Berkhamsted (Rosebank) 



Hatfield (St. Michael's) 



Hertford 



Sawbridgeworth 



Harpenden (Hecla Villa) 



Hitchin 



Odsey, Ashwell 



The Winter of 1905-6. 



This was an exceptionally mild and sunny winter. In the 

 last twenty years there have been only three winters in which 

 the mean temperature has been so high, and at no time did the 

 thermometer exposed on the lawn show more than 17 degrees of 

 frost. The total rainfall exceeded the average by only about 

 half an inch, but there was an unusual number of days on which 

 rain fell. The record of clear sunshine at Berkhamsted 

 averaged two hours a day, which is about twenty minutes a day 

 in excess of the mean. 



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