2 A Naturalist's Calendar. 



Xatunilist's Calendar first published in 1795. Jardine Hall, 

 his home where the majority of his records were made, is in 

 the parish of Applegarth and Sibbaldbie, in the county of 

 Dumfries; lat., 55 deg'. 10 min. 30 sec. N. ; long., 3 deg'. 

 25 min. W. ; and situated at an altitude of 190 feet above sea 

 level. 



I presume that the " Callendar " was included in Dr 

 Harvie-Brown's bequest to the Royal Scottish Museum in 

 1916, and that it is now safely treasured there. It forms part 

 of a thin octavo volume (7I by 4^ ins.), in the preliminary 

 pages of which Sir William has written an account of his trip 

 to Holland, in August, 1825, to see the ornithological collection 

 of C. J. Temminck. This account is of no local interest but 

 the booklet contains one or two pencil sketches of birds' heads 

 which testify to Sir William's ability as a draftsman- At the 

 conclusion of the description of his Dutch tour several pages 

 are utilised for recording \arious natural history observations 

 made at Jardine Hall in 1826 and 1828; these, few though they 

 are, I transcribed since they refer to Dumfriesshire. The 

 remaining pages of the booklet are utilised for a " Naturalist's 

 Calendar " for 1829, which it is to be regretted stops at ihc 

 end of May of that year. 



In my desire to copy Sir William's notes as near to the 

 original as possible I have gone so far as to repeat manv mis- 

 spellings, or slips of the pen, such as " callendar," for calen- 

 dar; " par," for parr; " plumb," for plum; " topp," for top; 

 " rapidlye," for rapidly; etc. Spaces that have been left blank 



by Sir William I have indicated thus | ! ; and each word 



that is indecipherable is sl::^wn by — ? — . Doubtful words are 

 placed in square brackets and ciueried [ ?]. 



The abbreviations that occur from time to time through- 

 out the manuscript are Bar., barometer; Boist., boisterous; 

 Br., breeze; cult., cultivated; Edinr., Edinburgh; fl., first 

 opening of flower; H., hail; 1., first opening of leaf; R., rain; 

 Shs., showers; si., slight; st. and str., strong; var., variety; 

 and, of course, N., S. , E., W. stand for the four points of 

 the compass. The numerals occurring in the text refer to my 

 notes, which are printed at the end of Sir William's " Callen- 

 dar." 



