166 J. H. MAIDEN. 



C— Hoffmann and Ihre of Giessen, Germany (some of 

 their papers are already referred to) wrote "Nature" of 

 30th March, 1882, giving a list of the "First buds open" 

 and "First fruit ripe" observed at Giessen for many years. 



D.-In "Nature" for 13th April, 1882, Mr. J. Edmund 

 Clark has an interesting letter on the same subject, con- 

 taining useful information. 



E.— See also "Instructions for the observation of Pheno- 

 logical phenomena, published by the Council of the Meteoro- 

 logical Society (of London). Price 6d. The instructions 

 are under the heads of Plants, Insects and Birds (also first 

 appearance of Frog-spawn). " Annual Report on the 

 phenological observations." These have been conducted 

 for many years by Mr. Edward Mawley and are published 

 in the Quarterly Journal of the Society. England is divided 

 into sections bearing the letters A, O, E, D, F, I (includes 

 part of Scotland), Scotland H, J, K, and Ireland B, G. 

 There were 106 observers, scattered over the three king- 

 doms, in 1906. Discussion of the tabulation of the results 

 is most interesting and an abridgment is published. 



P.— "A simple method of taking phenological observa- 

 tions " by Edward Mawley. Trans. Hertfordshire Nat. 

 Hist. Soc, vi, 117 — 122 (1892) is a most valuable paper. 



G.— " Phenology " is an item (3800) in the subdivision of 

 subjects (Botany) of the "International Catalogue of 

 Scientific Literature." Specimens of the papers indexed 

 will be found at pp. 515, 516 of the Catalogue (Botany) for 

 1908 (March). 



Australian. 



A.— In the Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society 

 of Tasmania there were recorded, for many years pheno- 

 logical observations in regard to plants (chiefly cultivated 

 exotics) in the Botanic Gardens at Hobart. I do not know 



