FIRST APPEARANCES OF BIRDS, INSECTS, ETC. 147 



Average. Highest. Lowest. 



May 29-774 ... 30'04 ... 29-23 



June 29-72 ... 30'0 ... 29-26 



July 29-54 ... 29'80 ... 29'10 



August ... 29-71 ... 30-01 ... 29'26 



September ... 29-72 ... 30'09 ... 29'16 

 October December, absent from house. 



9mos. ... 29.66 ... 32.1 ... 28.25 



E.S.R. notes that this is the 43rd consecutive year in which 

 he had made a return (surely a record for the Club. Ed.). 



January mild generally, hard frosts the beginning and 

 middle. 17th to 24th of month 17 of frost registered at 

 Chardstock. Ice would bear for skating. A wet and stormy 

 March, making all farm and garden work very backward. 

 April 10th to 23rd we had a lovely bout of bright warm spring 

 weather. Trees and vegetation made quick growth. We 

 had a fine summer, and a very good and abundant Hay 

 Harvest and Corn Harvest. 



It w r as a remarkable year for abundance of all Garden 

 Fruit, and for all wild fruit. We had some hot weather in 

 June, July was rather wet and cold, but from the middle of 

 August to the beginning of September we had some very hot 

 weather, enabling the Corn Harvest to be carted in splendid 

 condition. 



There was an eclipse of the sun on August 21 and an 

 observation was made of it at Chardstock about midday. 

 Wet, rather chilly, weather set in on the 10th September 

 after a beautiful, fine, hot four w r eeks of lovely summer and 

 autumn weather. 



The Summer of 1914 was remarkable for thunderstorms 

 and the damage they did. An abundant and beautiful 

 autumn, with the first days of November quite mild, fine, 

 and warm. December closed with unprecedented wet and 

 floods, though Christmas day was hard frost. 



