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XV. 
EEPOET ON PHENOLOGICAL PHENOMENA OBSEEVED IN 
HEETFOEDSHIEE DUEING THE YEAE 1901 . 
By Edward Mawley, Yice-Pres. E. Met. Soc., F.E.H.S. 
Read at Watford , 2 5th March, 1902 . 
The only change in the observing stations since the last report 
was issued has been the removal of the observer at Wealdstone 
to Oxhey Lane, Watford. The distribution of the stations con¬ 
sequently remains as satisfactory as before. The only part of the 
county altogether unrepresented is the neighbourhood of Buntingford 
in the north-east. 
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. 
Watford (Oxhey Lane) ... 
Watford (The Platts) . 
Watford (Weetwood) . 
Chesham (Cannon Mill Cottage) . 
Broxbourne ...... 
240 feet. 
240 ,, 
270 „ 
300 ,, 
120 „ 
300 ,, 
400 „ 
300 ,, 
140 ,, 
240 „ 
370 „ 
230 ,, 
260 „ 
G. E. Eland. 
Mrs. G. E. Bishop. 
Mrs. J. Hopkinson. 
Miss G. Keating. 
Eev. H. P. Waller. 
H. Lewis. 
Mrs. E. Mawley. 
T. Brown. 
W. Graveson. 
H. S. Eivers. 
J. J. Willis. 
A. W. Dawson, M.A. 
H. G. Fordbam. 
St. Albans (Worley Eoad). 
Berkhamsted (Eosebank)...... 
Hatfield (Symonds Hyde) . 
Hertford . 
Sawbridgeworth . 
Harpenden (Hecla Villa). 
Hitcbin. 
Ashwell (Odsey) ... 
The Winter of 1900-01. 
Eegarded as a whole this was a mild winter, but during the 
course of it there occurred two distinct periods of cold weather, 
one in January, lasting about a week, and the other in February, 
lasting three weeks. The cold, however, was never severe, the 
exposed thermometer at Berkhamsted at no time registering more 
than 19 degrees of frost. There were comparatively few days 
altogether free from rain or snow, but the total quantity was about 
an inch in defect of the average for the quarter. The distribution 
of the rainfall was peculiar, more than half the total quantity 
having been deposited in December. The sun shone on an average 
at Berkhamsted for about an hour a day less than is seasonable. 
The great drawback to the farmer during this season was the 
unworkable condition of the ground, at first through the frequent 
falls of rain and snow, and afterwards by the three weeks frost 
