PREFACE TO THE NATURALIST'S 

 CALENDAR. 



HE mode in winch the following rural Calendar 

 of the year has been composed, was to copy 

 out from the Journals all the circumstances 

 thought worthy of noting, with the several 

 dates of their recurrence, and to preserve the 

 earliest and latest of those dates ; so that the Calendar ex- 

 hibits the extreme range of variation in the first occurrence 

 of all the phenomena mentioned. To many of them only 

 one date is annexed, only one observation having been 

 entered. This is particularly the case with respect to the 

 flowering of plants, with which the book of 1768 alone was 

 copiously filled ; and it is to be noted that this was rather a 

 backward year. [J. A.] 



[In the preface to the edition of the Natural History 

 published in 1802 it is stated that 



A very valuable addition to the Calendar and Observa- 

 tions has been obtained from the kindness of William 

 Markwick, Esq., F.L.S., well known as an accurate ob- 

 server of nature; whose parallel calendar, kept in the 

 county of Sussex, is given upon the opposite columns.] 



