ivith Special Reference to that of December 4, 1893. 133 
It was suggested that the panic might have a disastrous effect 
upon the spring lambing, which is rather early on the brashy and 
limestone districts in West and North-west Oxfordshire. But very 
little information upon the point has reached me. Mr, C. Calvert, 
writing early in J anuary, says 
I regret to add that two dead lambs have been bora since, and I fear 
that there will be some more. 
Mr. Willocks writes, on January 12, from the Ditchley Model 
Farm : — 
I have bad one ewe slip since — ewe died — and one ewe died with dead 
lambs in her ; the other ewes that have lambed are doing well, and the 
lambs are healthy. 
In the northern part of Oxfordshire, where few lambs are dropped 
before February, I have at present heard of no unusual proportion 
of dead lambs being born. 
The fact has been noticed and remarked upon that these panics 
in sheep always take place among those that are folded. One 
answer to this remark is that in December nearly all the sheep in this 
part of the country are penned upon the arable land ; another is that 
where sheep are running loose in a big grass-field signs of their 
having experienced a panic in the previous night would be very 
difficult to detect. 
The point, however, should not be lost sight of, and the following 
information, supplied by Mr. Willocks, bears upon it : — 
Lees Best Farm: Mr. Harwood . . . bad bis ewes and feeding sheep 
penned in one field, the ewes in a large pen, and their hurdles were not dis- 
turbed ; but the feeding sheep, which were in ordinary -sized pens [italics 
are mine], were mixed up together, and had broken out of their different 
pens. . . . 
Hill Barn Farm: Mr. Fowler. (On the Blenheim estate, and adjoining 
the above farm on the south-east.) Mr. Fowler keeps about 400 feeding in 
small lots', they were all mixed up together, but no sheep killed. Ewes 
were not penned, and no sign of their being disturbed was traceable [italics 
are mine]. 
With regard to the extent of country over which the panic 
spread, although we have information which has enabled us to 
trace its effects in a large number of parishes, I have made no 
effort to ascertain its farthest limits ; nor do I think it necessary 
or desirable to do mere in this direction than to show that the 
panic did extend over a considerable tract of country. For, grant- 
ing that the cause was meteorological (as I think will be admitted 
when this paper has been perused), it follows that the extent of 
the panic would be co-extensive with that of the meteorological 
phenomenon, and this is rather a subject for determination by 
meteorologists. 
Taking the town of Chipping Norton, in North-west Oxfordshire, 
as a starting-point, we trace the panic northwards as far as Brailes, 
in Warwickshire, and Shipton-on-Stpur, and north-eastwards 
