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ther, particularly the night-frofts and eafterly winds, have not only cities the progrefs of 
their fewering, but, itis to be feared, have done great injury to the fetting of the fruit. The 
elm and qrodatein afh, are both in flower. 
April 16. Some Hirundines were this day seen for the firt time; they were obferved in 
rapid flight, in a direct line, and not playing about in a air, as they ufually do, when tite 
principal part of them are arrived. 
April 24. I this day obferved fevera] Houfe-martins, playing about the furface of the 
river; and occafionally pide im and wathing themfelves.—I likewife faw-fome wheat- 
ears. 
In the night of April 21ft, we had, without any apparently fuficient caufe, im the pree 
eeding fall ar rain, the higheét flood of freth water that has been known in this néighbour- 
hood fince the time that the Haifewell Eat Indiaman was loft. It was extremely fudden, 
and-its courfe fo rapid, as in fome places to have done great injury. About a mile from the 
place from which I write, it has {wept away a houfe, that was fuppofed to be out of € 1¢ reach 
of the water; and fome of the bridges have received confiderable damage. 
. The hawthorn hedges are beginning to appear green, and the leaves of the elm are fhoot- 
ing out. 
“April 24, A caterpillar of the goat-moth, ( Bombyx coffus of Haworth, ) which had been taken 
eut of the wood of a decayed willow-tree, 1 in the month of Oétober laf, and whieh almoft 
immediately after I received it, began to fpin its web, crawled out this day to my great fur- 
prize, ful in its caterpillar ftate. Under theimpreilion that it would foon undergo the change 
into a chryfalis, I had neglected to fupply it with any food : it has thus fubfitted for upwards 
-of fix months, without any nutriment whatever, and is not, as far as I can judge irom recol- 
deGion, at all dimimifhed in fize. 
April 26. I this day caught a fpeckled wood-butterfly, (P2pilio egeria of Linneus and 
Haworth, ) fo frefh and weak, that it had evidently only juft come to lite. 
Mullet, are now caught in the Larbours, and at fea, near the fhores. 
April 28. A fine and mild fprmg day. The hawthorn-flower buds tebe to fhew 
themfelves; there are immenfe quantities of a fpecies of phryganea, flying about the — 
foads and fields, the fame, apparently, as I remarked towards the latter end of Apri, lat 
ear. 
7 -The young of Cancer fagnalis, are very abundant, in nearly all the fplafhes on the roads. 
¥t is evident that the old animals of this fpecies, previoufly to the drye of the places 
which they inhabit, depeiit their eggs; and that thefe eggs continue through the fumimer and 
winter uninjured, either by drought oe froft, till the commencement of the enfuing fpring, 
when they are brought to life. 
April < 39. It has been afferted, that red-breafts are always filent during their breeding 
feafon ; and that they do not refume their fong till the young ones are able to procure their 
ewn food. This, however, is not the cafe, for I have heard them almoft every day. 
Corn, fallad, (Valeriana locufta,) Warebell, (Scilla nutaus of Smith,) and Subterraneous 
Tretoil, (Trefolium subterraneum,) are in flower. 
Hamp/hire. 
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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Observations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of <Agril, to, the 24th 
of May, 1899, inclusive, Four Miles N.N.W. of St. Paul’s. 
Barometer. Thermometer. . 
Highest, 30 00. May 7. Wind 5. E. Higheft, 77°, May 18. Wind S. E. 
Lowest, 29.00. May 1. Wind N. W. Lowest, 38. May 5. Wind N. W. : 
On the 25th in On the 28th, the 
> 38 hun the morning, the ( mercury ftood, in the 
‘Greatest iB ~ Nmercury was 29.93 Greateft ? ‘middle of the day, ac 
: dredths y } J 
Te a aS aie 5 Up Naetaad oles 8% 
variation in me fe and at the same |variation in < 54°, and on’ the next 
of an inch ; : 
24 hours hour on the 26th, | 24 hours. day at the fame hour, 
it had fallen te it was no higher than 
20 38.>', | ~ 44°. 
The quantity of rain fallen this month is equal to 2.6 in the depth nearly. 
Tn the courfe of the prefent month we have had fome very heavy rains ; but the wits on 
the 19th, was the moft remarkable event that we have to record in this period. In this 
nitibiawosd it may be regarded as two ftorms, with a fhort interval between them. The 
thunder and lightning did not come as ufual, at the diftance of feveral minutes between each 
fiahh, but the lightning was almoft japelfnt. the flathes remarkably vivid, and in fome in- 
ftances, they put on appearances that are by no means common ; from this place (Highgate ) 
the 
