IX. 



REPORT OX PnEXOLOGICAL PHENOMENA OBSERVED IN 

 HERTFORDSHIRE DURING THE YEAR 1895. 



By Edward Mawley, Pres.R.Met.Soc, F.R.H.S., 

 Phenological Recorder to the Royal Meteorological Society. 



Mead at Watford, 2\st April, 1896. 



The only alteration in the list of observing stations since the 

 last report was issued, is the addition of a new one, that at 

 "Wormley near Broxbourne, in which locality an observer was then 

 much wanted. At the present time the only parts of the county 

 where observers are still required, in order to make the organization 

 complete, are those in the neighbourhood of Bishop Stortford in the 

 east and of Buntingford in the north-east. 



The following table gives the names of the localities represented, 

 their approximate heights above sea-level, and the names of the 

 observers : — 



Station. 



Watford (The Platts) 



Radlett (Xewberries) 



St. Albans (The Grange) 



St. Albans (Addiscombe Lodge) 



St. Albans (Worley Road) 



Berkhamsted (Rosebank) 



Harpenden 



Broxbourne ("Wormley) 



Hatfield (Symonds Hyde) 



Hertford 



Hitchin 



Ashwell (Odsey) 



Observer. 



Mrs. G. E. Bishop. 

 Miss E. M. Lubbock. 

 Mrs. J. Hopkinson. 

 Miss E. E. Smith. 

 Henry Lewis. 

 Mrs. E. Mawley. 

 J. J. Willis. 

 Miss L. Warner. 

 T. Brown. 

 W. Graveson. 

 J. E. Little, M.A. 

 H. G. Fordham. 



The "Winter of 1894-5. 



December proved a very mild winter month, but throughout 

 the rest of the season singularly cold weather prevailed. To 

 give some idea of the persistent character of the cold, it may be 

 mentioned that between the 21st of January and the 21st of 

 February, or for a month, there did not occur at Berkhamsted 

 a single night when the minimum thermometer in shade failed 

 to register a temperature below the freezing-point. The frost, 

 however, was not only continuous, but also, at times, remarkably 

 severe. For instance, on four consecutive nights in February, 

 a thermometer exposed on the surface of the snow showed from 

 33 to 34 degrees of frost. The ground, although covered Avith 

 a layer of snow from two to four inches deep during the three 



