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showing the spring of 1868 to be earlier than usual by about 
14 days; but the summer was dull and ungenial. 
I had hoped to include in this paper a reference of the height 
of the flood of 1771, at various places in the vale of the Tyne, to 
the levels laid down by the Ordnance Survey, but have not been 
able to do so. Indeed the paper has grown to such a length, 
that I must bring it to a close, in the hope that I may at some 
future time be able to contribute some information on this point. 
Postscript.—Since our report and the accompanying tables 
were in type, we have been favoured by Mr. D. D. Main with a 
tabular statement of the amount of rainfall in 1862 and 1863 
at seven different stations of the Whittle Dene Water Company. 
This interestiug report we insert separately in the form of an 
appendix (p. 245); to include it in the general table would 
involve the reconstruction of the whole. 
XXIII.—Tables relative to the Flowering of Plants, &c., 1863. 
- Edited by Gzuorcz S. Brapy. 
Tue tables printed in this report require very little editorial 
remark. ‘The value of such observations can scarcely be 
appreciated except by the comparison of a considerable number 
of consecutive years, materials for which are yet wanting. A 
comparison of the dates given opposite to the several localities 
at which observations have been recorded during the past 
year does not furnish us with any trust:vorthy generalizations 
as to the relative forwardness of the different parts of the two 
counties, though it would rather point to the conclusion that, 
during the first two months of the year, vegetation was more 
advanced near the sea-side than in inland localities. This, 
however, considering the scanty data on which we have to 
depend, cannot be asserted with any degree of certainty. Ano- 
ther source of fallacy should also be borne in mind, namely, 
that different observers would very probably, under precisely the 
same circumstances, record different dates, one, for instance, 
considering a tree to be in bud when the first appearance of a 
bud was visible, another only when the bud was fully developed. 

