naturalists' kalendar. 70 



NATURALISTS' KALENDAR, 1869. 



April 6th — Sherardia arvensis. Field Madder in flower. 



„ 11th — Cuckoo heard. 



„ 16th — TussUago Farfara, Coltsfoot in flower. 



,, 23rd — Helianthemum vulgare, Eock Rose; Primula vulgaris, var. 

 caulescens ; Nests of larrse of the Brown Tail Moth 

 (Porthesia chrysorrhea) in great abundance on the War- 

 ren ; SmaU Cabbage Butterfly (Pieris rapm) appears. 



„ 28th — Colias Edusa caught on Warren ; Swallows (Rirundo rustica) 

 appear ; LarvsB of Oak Egger (Bombyx quercus) out, 

 May^3rd — Swift appears. 



„ 8th — DeilepMla lineata, the Striped Hawk Moth found on the 

 Warren. 



„ 20th — Orobanche minor, the lesser Broom Rape in flower on the 

 Warren. 



,, 26th — Lycosna Aionis out. 



„ 30th — Oak Egger spins. 



„ 31st — Cerura vinula emerges from the chrysalis in captivity. This 

 is very late, as specimens were out a month ago. They 

 generally appear later in captivity. 



I have seen the young man of fierce passions and un- 

 controllable daring, expend healthily that energy which 

 threatened daily to plunge him into recklessness if not into 

 sin, upon hunting out and collecting, through rock and bog, 

 snow and tempest, every bird and egg of the neighbouring 

 forest. I have seen the cultivated man, craving for travel 

 and for success in life, pent up in the drudgery of London 

 work, and yet keeping his spirit calm, and perhaps his morals 

 all the more righteous, by spending over his microscope, 

 evenings which would too probably have gradually been 

 wasted at the theatre. I have seen the young London 

 beanty, amid all the excitement and temptation of luxury 

 and flatter)', with her heart pure and her mind occupied in 

 a boudoir full of shells and fossils, flowers and seaweeds, 

 keeping herself unspotted from the world by considering 

 the lilies of the field how they grow. And therefore it is 

 that I hail with thankfulness every fresh book of Natural 

 History, as a fresh boon to the young, a fresh help to those 

 who have to educate them. 



C. KINGSLEY. 



