196 Naturalis’s Monthly Report. ae [Sept. ! : 
Dover-street ditto, Sl. ditto.—Highgate Archway ditto, 91. 10s. to 101. ditto.—East London _ 
Water Works, 2201]. per share.—West Middlesex ditta, (new shares,) 501. premium. —Soutk? 
London ditto, 271. ditto. —York Buildings ditto, 501]. ditto.—Kent ditto, 411. ditto —Cole 
chester ditto, 481. ditto.—Holloway ditto, SI. ditto.—London Institution; 801. per share.—_ 
Surry ditto, 101. per share, discount.—Russel ditto, par.—Avction Mart ditto, 751. per share, 
premium.—Globe Insurance Office, 1271. per share.—Imperial ditto, 761. ditto. —Albion 
ditto, 601, ditto.—Eagle ditto, 10s. per share discount.—-Hope ditto, 10s. ditto.—-Atlas ditto, 
10s. ditto.—Rock ditto, 21s. per share, premium. . 
The average prices of Navigable Canal Property, Dock Stock, Fire-office Shares, &c. in 
August, 1810, (to the 25th) at the Office of Mr. Scott, 28, New VBridge-street, Loadon.—- 
Trent and Mersey or Grand Trunk Canal, dividing 401. per share clear per annum, 10751. 
—Coventry, dividing 281. per share, 6801. to 7071. 10s.—Grand Junction, 2701. to ¢861.— 
Monmouthshire, 31. per share half yearly, 1351. to 1381.—Stourbridge, 2461.—Leeds and 
Liverpool, 1861. 103.—Kennet and Avon, 431. 10s. 441/—-Wilts and Berks, 581. 591.—Hud- _ 
dersfield, 391. 103.—Grand Union, 41. 15s. premium.—Bath and Bristo! Extension, 61. 15s. te 
71. ditto —Ellesmere, 76l.—West India Dock Stock, 1661.—East India Dock, 136!1.—Londow 
Dock, 1261.—Globde Assurance, 128].—Thames and Medway, 53!. premium—Ashby-de-la- 
Zouch, 221. 10s.—Imperial Assurance, 761-—Atlas Assurance, par.—=East London Water. 
Works, 218l.——West Middlesex, 145.—Yauxhall Bridge, 51. per cent. discount. 
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NATURALIST’S MONTHLY REPORT. 
- JULY. 
Fruiting Month. . 
Hark! where the sweeping scythe now rips along: 
Each sturdy mower emulous and strong ; 
Whose writhing form meridian heat defies, - 
Bends o’er his work, and every sinew fries; 
Frostrates the waving treasure at his fect. 
PPHE long-continued drought is at last acan end. During the present month we have had 
.a considerable fall of rain, by which the corn crops have been surprisingly recovered. 
Those few farmers who ploughed in their wheat at the beginning of the spring, have now 
reason to lament their rashness; since, even in the least promising fields, the crops wil¥ 
prove on the whole by no means unfavorable. 7 ‘ 
On the 3d of the month we had strong gales of wind from the south, south-west, and 
west; and on the following day from the north-west: on the 12th and 13th, we had the 
same from south-west; and on the 27th, from the south. , 
We had rain on the ist, 3d, 4th, 8th, 11th, 15th, 16th, 47th, ist, 26ch,. 27tix, 
and partially on several other days. In the afternoon of the Qist there was a sharp 
hailstorm. ‘There were thunder storms onthe ist, 8th, andi4th. The lightaing on the- 
morning of the 8th, set fire to a farm-house, and burnt it to the grounc 
July 1. Garden beans ae more than usually pestered with aphides, or plant-lice. Some of 
the crops are nearly black with them, and have been so much checked in th¥ir growth that 
the pods are scarcely formed. The larvz or grubs of the seven-spotted or common lady-bug 
(coccinella septem-punctata,) which devour great quantities of them, are also numerous. — 
Tuly 2. Aprivethawk moth (Sphinx ligustri,) of unusually large size, issued this day 
from the earth of a breeding-box, in which its caterpillar, in the autumn of last*year, had 
changed intoachrysalid stare. The following plants are now in flower: Wald teasel, (dipsacus 
fullonum.) Yellow willow-herb, (Lysimachia vulgaris.) Purple-fiowered or bog pimpernell, 
(anagallis tenelld.) Bird's foot clover, (lotus cormculatus.) Hare's foot trefoil, (¢rifelum ar= 
vense.) Common rest harrow, (ononis arvensis.) Common self-heal, (prunedia vulgaris } 
And wild parsnep, (partinaca sativa). 2: ; 
July.7. The wheat is looking remarkably well; and the barley which had been kept 
back by the late dry weather, isnownearlyallinear, < hh lait 
A large species of ants fly about the sandy felds and dry banks. 
July 11. A tortoise-shel butterfly (papilo polychloros), the chrysalis of which was form- 
ed om the 5th of June, came this day te lite; and on the foliowing day a peacock butterfly 
( papilio io}, the chrysatis. of which had been formed on the 10th of June. . 
july 14, The caterpHlar of a drinker moth (domdbyx potatorius of Haworth,) began this 
day to spin its nidus. It will continue in a chrysslid state until about the 12th of August. 
- July 18. The farmers have begun to cut rye. 
July 19. I found a great number of the curculio, the larve of which feed on the water 
betony, (viz. curculio scropbularig.) They were just issuing from a pupa state. The follicle 
that is spun by each larva is about the size of a small pea, of an olive brown colour, and 
semi-transparent. ‘These follicles, to the number of abouts a hundred and twenty, <a 
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