246 MU. T. SOUTHWELL ON MR, MARSIIAM’s “INDICATIONS OP SPRING.” 
XYI. 
ON MR. MARSHAM’S “INDICATIONS OF SPRING.” 
By Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., Y.-P. 
Read 26th February, 1901. 
In January, 1875, I communicated to our Society a table of the 
“ Indications of Spring,” compiled from the remarkable series of 
observations made by the Marsham family at and near Stratton 
Strawless, about seven miles north of Norwich, which the late 
Rev. H. P. Marsham had kindly placed in my hands for that 
purpose. This table which, with some introductory matter was 
printed in the second volume of our ‘ Transactions,’ pp. 31 — 45, 
was brought down to the year 1874, and as Major H. S. Marsham, 
son of the above, lias continued to register the “ Indications,” it 
struck me that the end of the century might be an appropriate 
time to give a complete summary of the whole series, ending with 
the year 1900 ; this, with the permission of Major Marsham, I now 
have much pleasure in doing, and I venture to think that the 
record embodying from 60 to 127 separate observations of each 
phenomenon, all made in the same locality, is altogether 
unprecedented. 
In my former communication I gave some account of the origin 
of these observations which were begun in 1736 by Robert Marsham, 
F.R.S. (the correspondent of Gilbert White) ; they were rather 
irregularly kept till the year 1745, but from that time were made 
with great regularity (with one interval of 26 years between 1811 
and 1835 both inclusive) by successive members of the Marsham 
family, to the present time. I also gave extracts from the interesting 
“ Journal ” in which Robert Marsham recorded observations on 
