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XIII. 
REPORT ON PHENOLOGICAL PHENOMENA OBSERVED IN 
HERTFORDSHIRE DURING THE YEAR 1903. 
Ey Edward Mawley, Past-Pres. E. Met. Soc., E.E.H.S. 
Bead at Watford , 19 th April , 1904. 
It is to be regretted that the neighbourhood of Euntingford 
remains altogether unrepresented, and that for the first time for 
many years there is no observer of either plants or insects at 
St. Albans. 
The following table gives the list of observers, the districts they 
represent, and the approximate height of the stations above sea- 
level. Three of the stations are just outside our County boundary, 
Harefield being in Middlesex, Chesham in Eucks, and Odsey in 
Cambridgeshire. 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. 
Chesham (Cannon Mill Cottage) .... 
300 ,, 
Miss G. Keating. 
Broxbourne ... 
120 „ 
Rev. H. P. Waller. 
St. Albans (Worley Road). 
300 ,, 
H. Lewis. 
Berkbamsted (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. 
Hitcbin. 
230 „ 
A. W. Dawson, M.A. 
Odsey, Asbwell .. 
260 „ 
H. G. Fordbam. 
The Winter of 1902-3. 
This proved a singularly mild Winter. In fact, with the 
exception of ten days at the beginning of December and a week 
in the middle of January, when low temperatures prevailed, the 
weather continued throughout unusually warm. On no night 
did the exposed thermometer at Eerkhamsted show more than 
19 degrees of frost, whereas it is very seldom that an entire Winter 
is passed through without a lower temperature than this being at 
some time registered. It was not only a very warm but also a very 
dry Winter, while the duration of sunshine was about seasonable. 
At the beginning of the season the usual work on the farm at 
that time of year was in an exceptionally forward state. This 
was in a great measure owing to the dry and satisfactory condition 
of the land during the greater part of the previous Autumn. Hot 
only had a larger area than usual by that time been planted with 
wheat and other winter crops under the most favourable circum¬ 
stances, but most of the ground destined for spring corn was 
