$t)enolo0ical Beport on Jfirst 



Appearances of fiirfcs, Insects, &C M anii 



jfirst jfiotoering of pants 



IN DORSET DURING 1917. 



By W. PARKINSON CURTIS, F.E.S. 



13 Y direction of the Council of this Club, and in view 

 of the high cost of printing and shortage of 

 paper, this Report has been reduced to such 

 attenuated dimensions that the features I had 

 tried to introduce into it with a view of stimu- 

 lating research into the Fauna and Flora of 

 our County have had to be eliminated, and it 

 is no more than a strictly Phenological Report. 

 Its value scientifically is consequently curtailed seriously, 

 and a mass of material at my disposal, from many corres- 

 pondents, has been reluctantly put aside, and I trust my 

 fellow members and correspondents will not think the 

 shortness is due to my want of appreciation of their 

 kindness in sending the material. I am told by our 

 President that it is largely a question of finance. 



