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XXX. 
REPOET ON PHENOLOGICAL PHENOMENA OBSERVED IN 
HERTFORDSHIRE DURING THE YEAR 1904 . 
Ey Edward Mawley, Past-Pres. R. Met. Soc., E.R.H.S., Y.M.H. 
Bead at Watford , 12 th April, 1905 . 
It is a matter for regret that the north-east portion of the county 
should still remain altogether unrepresented in our Phenological 
Report. On the other hand, we welcome with pleasure a new 
observer at St. Albaus, where a vacancy had occurred, and another 
new observer at Hatfield, where an observer of long standing is 
this year, much to our regret, leaving the neighbourhood. 
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 boundaiy, 
Harefield being in Middlesex, Chesham in Rucks, 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. 
St. Albans (New Farm) . 
400 ,, 
Miss A. Dickinson. 
Berkhamsted (Rosebank). 
400 „ 
Mrs. E. Mawley. 
Hatfield (Symonds Hyde.) . 
300 ,, 
T. Brown. 
Hatfield (St. Michael’s) . 
380 ,, 
Miss R. Blackett. 
Hertford . 
140 ,, 
W. Graveson. 
Sawbridgeworth . 
240 „ 
H. S. Rivers. 
Harpenden (Hecla Villa). 
370 ,, 
J. J. Willis. 
Hitchin.... 
230 „ 
A. W. Dawson, M.A. 
Odsey, Ashwell ..... 
260 „ 
H. G. Fordham. 
The Winter of 1903-4. 
Taken as a whole this was a Winter of about average temperature. 
During the course of it there occurred three periods of cold weather, 
hut in each case they lasted only about a week. The greatest cold 
registered by the exposed thermometer at Berkhamsted was 16 
degrees of frost, which is a very high extreme minimum for the 
season. The rainfall was a good deal in excess of the average; 
the most noteworthy feature, however, was a wet period in the 
middle of the quarter, when in 26 days more rain fell than the 
