on thz fUtntn* of fldnfall 



(Dbmbation* on the Jlobming of Pant* anb 



of $ irb* anb Insect* 



IN DORSET DURING 1890. 



By M. G. STUART, Hon. Sec. 



HE report for the year 1890 is drawn from returns 

 made from schedules, which were prepared l>y a 

 Committee in the winter of 1889 to suit the 

 features of the Fauna and Flora of Dorset. The 

 importance of a uniform system of making these 

 observations becomes more apparent since the 

 experiment of drawing out a return for the County has now been 

 carried on for three years in succession. Mr. Edward Mawley, 

 the Phenological Recorder to the Royal Meteorological Society, in 

 a paper read before the Hertfordshire Natural History Society in 

 1891, draws attention to this matter. He says the observer should 

 watch " the same individual trees and shrubs, and as regards 



