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VI. 
REPORT ON PHENOLOGICAL PHENOMENA OBSERVED IN 
HERTFORDSHIRE DURING THE YEAR 1902. 
By Edward Mawley, Vice-Pres. R. Met. Soc., E.R.H.S. 
Read at Watford , 21$£ April, 1903. 
It is a matter for regret that the neighbourhood of Buntingford, 
in the north-east of the county, is altogether unrepresented in this 
and previous reports. With this exception the distribution of 
the observing stations is as satisfactory as could be wished. The 
only changes during the past year have been the removal of the 
observer at Oxhey Lane, Watford, to Harefield, just outside the 
southern borders of the county, and the introduction of a new 
observer at St. Albans. Unfortunately for that part of the present 
report which has reference to the flowering of plants, only two 
observations were received during the year from Broxbourne and 
the same number from St. Albans, and only three observations 
from Hitchin. It is much to be hoped that another year the 
returns sent in from these stations may be more complete. The 
observations from Hitchin have hitherto been unusually good. 
The following table gives the list of observers, the districts they 
represent, and the approximate height of the stations above sea-level. 
The sequence is from south to north. 
Station. 
Height above 
Sea-level. 
Observer. 
Harefield (The Scrubbs). 
340 feet. 
G. E. Eland. 
Watford (The Platts) . 
240 „ 
Mrs. G. E. Bishop. 
Watford (Weetwood) . 
270 „ 
Mrs. J. Hopkinson. 
Cbesbam (Cannon Mill Cottage) . 
300 ,, 
Miss G. Keating. 
Broxbourne . 
120 „ 
Rev. H. P. Waller. 
St. Albans (Worley Road). 
300 ,, 
H. Lewis. 
St. Albans (Kitchener’s Meads). 
270 „ 
A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S. 
Berkhamsted (Rosebank). 
400 „ 
Mrs. E. Mawley. 
Hatfield (Symonds Hyde) . 
300 ,, 
T. Brown. 
Hertford . 
140 ,, 
W. Graveson. 
Sawbridgeworth . 
240 ,, 
H. S. Rivers. 
Harpenden (Hecla Villa).. 
370 „ 
J. J. Willis. 
Hitchin. 
230 „ 
A. W. Dawson, M.A. 
Odsey, Ash well . 
260 ,, 
H. G. Fordbam. 
The Winter of 1901-2. 
Taken as a whole, this was a rather mild, rather dry, and 
somewhat gloomy Winter. With the exception of two weeks in 
December and three weeks in February the weather continued very 
mild. Of the two cold periods that in February was not only the 
most prolonged, but the most severe—on the coldest night the 
exposed thermometer at Berkhamsted registered 25 degrees of frost. 
