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phaenological observatories. Only ten stations, however, were 

 established, and their activity extended over but five years — 1828 

 to 1833. 



In 1845, at tne instigation of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, Quetelet's scheme of observation was 

 adopted, and a translation of it distributed throughout the country. 

 No great results, however, accrued from this effort, only a few stations 

 being established, the observations of which are recorded in the 

 reports of the Association until 1856. The general spread of 

 phaenological observation in England is of as recent a date as 1875. 



In Scotland, on the other hand, observations have been systemati- 

 cally carried out since 1856, and were published annually from 1856 

 to 1862 in the Report of Scotch Meteorology, and from 1863 to the 

 present time in the Journal of the Scotch Meteorological Society. 

 In the scheme of 1863, five cultivated herbs and fifteen of the most 

 widely distributed trees and shrubs are selected ; the first appearance 

 of leaf, flower, and fruit, and the beginning of defoliation being noted 

 in the case of the latter. There are about 100 stations, many of 

 long standing. At Edinburgh observations, almost exclusively on 

 early-blooming herbs, were carried out by M'Nab from 1858 to 1878, 

 and, continued from 1879 to 1882 by Sadler, are published in the 

 Transactions of the Edinburgh Botanical Society. They extend back 

 to 1850. 



We must here notice a few other localities from which observa- 

 tions generally comprehensive, and extending over many years, are 

 recorded. Such are those of Jenyns (' Observations in Natural History,' 

 London, 1846) from Swaffham Bulbeck in Cambridgeshire, 1820 — 

 183 1, and also for 1845. Both average and earliest and latest data 

 of the various phases are noted. 



Miss Molesworth's observations at Cobham, 1825 to 1850, and those 

 of Roberts at Lofthouse, from 1862 to 1875, were not published till 

 1880 and 1882 respectively. A portion of the latter's appeared 

 annually since 1876 in one or more numbers of the Yorkshire Post. 



A comprehensive series of observations is also contained in the 

 Reports of the Marlborough College Natural History Society. They 

 were commenced in 1865 at the instigation of the Rev. T. A. Preston, 

 the President of the Society, and have been regularly continued since. 

 In 1867 Rugby followed the example of Marlborough, and observa- 

 tions are recorded in the reports of the School Natural History 

 Society till 1872. 



What may be termed the Renascence of Vegeto-Phaenology in 

 England dates, as already stated, from 1875. In that year the 



Naturalist, 



