20 CORRESPONDENT!: . 



by the Meteorological Society for obsei-vation during January and 

 February : — 



JANUARY AND FEBRUARY. 



Plants. 

 No. in Average 



Hat ' Earliest. Latest. 



70 1 Galanthus nivalis (Snowdrop) Jan. 11. Feb. 20 



63 7 Veronica hederifolia (Ivy-leaved Speedwell) By Jan. 1. Feb. 20 

 6G 8 Corylus Avellana (Hazel) Jan. 17. Mar. 10 



'_' 11 Ranunculus ficabia (Pilewort) Jan. 26. Mar. 6 



63 '-'1 Mercurialis perennis (Dog's Mercury) Feb. 1. Mar. 27 



C - J7 Cardamine hirsuta (Hairy Bitter Cress) .. Feb. C. April 8 



:t7 Tussilaoo Fakfara (Coltsfoot) Feb. 11. April 1 



ects and Birds. 



71 Apis mellifica (Honey Bee) 



ichocera hiemalis (Winter Gnat) 



88 Alauda arvensis (Skylark) song begins . 

 82 Turdus musicut (Song Thrush) song begins 



89 Fringilla celebs (Chaffinch) song begins i ,., . 

 80 Strix aluco (Brown Owl) hoots ' 



olooical Observation. — Geranium Rohertianum in full flower 



□ old linio kiln, near foot of Beacon Stoop, on 

 I -t ; buovi "li hills ami fields averaging 2£ inches in depth, 

 w< ather bitterly cold. — Clement L. Wbagge. 



Fi iNT Implements in mE Drift. — Ih tly found a Paleolithic 



implement in gravels north of Ealing, 164ft. above ordnance datum. 



inence, having the Thames Valley on one side 



and Harrow on the other. Several flakes occurred at t lie same place. 



From the high or plateau gravels overlooking 1 [ertford I have got one 



made implement; a first-rate trimmed Hake and 



ordinary flakes. From the same beds, near Ware, I have a 



poor implement and a good Blice flake ; and a friend, who lives in the 



bourhood, 1ms obtained a large ovate (broken in ancient times) 



flint implement from these same Ware gravels. — Wortuinoton G. 



Smith. 



Obnttholooica] lii March Last, or, perhaps, rather later, 



a pair of Shovellers [Anas elypeata, Linn.) were Been on Otmoor, 



in this county. The male, i am sorry to say, was shot. They 



might possibly have bred there it" undisturbed, as the place is a 



aitable habitat for wild fowl. The Rev. T. W. Falcon, of 



Charlton, (to whom I am indebted for this information,) Bays : " The 



■ and often all Bummer, a swamp of from 2,000 to 



• ■• the bird is sufficientlj well known there 



winter visitor) to have the local name of Spoonbill. A 



killid in the same place in October. Winter 



birds have arrived in fair unmbers. Snipe were verj plentiful early in 



•on, and no lee than seven " Jacks " were Lolled in one meadow 



'1 hr< i <■!> 5 Crows havi been 

 procured, (the first was. T think, on October 12th,) and seven or eight 



