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year, the one chosen being that which has just 

 elapsed, viz. 1845 : and it will have an especial in- 

 terest, perhaps, compared with the results of the 

 series of years registered in the other columns, from 

 the circumstance of its having been an extreme year ; 

 and, throughout each of the seasons, as backward 

 as, if not more so than, any of those which are in- 

 cluded in the above series. At the same time it 

 must be observed, that during this year only those 

 phenomena are registered which happened to be 

 observed, and that therefore there are many blanks, 

 some perhaps most important ones, in reference to 

 other phenomena registered before. 



(28.) It may be as well to state that the scien- 

 tific names of the several species of plants and ani- 

 mals noted in this calendar, are believed to be in 

 most instances those adopted by the latest authors 

 in their respective departments. The names of the 

 birds are the same as those given by Yarrell in his 

 work on British Birds : the names of the mammals 

 and the reptiles are from Bell : the names of the 

 plants, (at least the British ones) from Babington's 

 Manual. In all cases, however, the English names 

 are prefixed, where there are any generally familiar 

 to the English reader. Many of the insects have 

 no English name at all ; this, however, is not the 

 case with the lepidoptera, to which the same En- 

 glish ones have been applied as those given by 

 Haworth in his well-known work on this order. 

 The Latin names of the insects generally are those 

 of Stephens. 



(29.) It only remains, in conclusion, to express a 

 hope that all errors which the reader may notice, or be 



