216 Ne aturalist’s Moris Report. [March a 
The following are the average Prices of Navigable Canal Shares, Dock Stock, Fire 
~ Office Shares, &c. in Fehruary, 1809, at the Office of Mr. Scott, No. 28, New Bridge- 
ftreet, Blackfriars, London :—! he Erewath Canal, at 6051. 15s per fhare, dividing 371. 10s. 
nett per fhare per annum.—The Melton Mowbray, 131). dividend, 71. 10s. nett —The 
Leicefer, 1661. dividend, 101. nett.—The Grantham, 64]. dividend, 41. nett.—The Leeds 
and Liverpool, 182). dividend,- 81. nette—The Monmouthihire, 1061. to 4071. 10s. divi- 
dend, 5!. nett —Grand function, 1521, te 133], dividend; 41.—Wilts and Berks, 28L— 
Kennet and Avon, 231. to 23]. 10s,—Athby-de- ‘lant. 91).—Lancafter, 171. with 
dividend of 11. per fhare—Welt India Dock Steck, 1641. to 1751. per cent.—Londen 
Dock, 118]. to 1181. 10s.—Eat India Dock, 1251. 10s.—-Rock Affurance, 5s. per thare 
premium.—Eatt London Water Works, 461. to 471. preminm.—Covent Garden New iheatre 
Subfcription, 31]. 10s. per fhare premium. 
- NATURALIST’s MONTHLY REPORT. 
JANUARY. 
Reviving Winter Month. 
The horizontal fun : 
Broad o’er the fouth, hangs at his utmoft noon, 
And, ineffectual, ftrikes the gelid cliff. 
N the whole the weather during the month ef January has been very unpleafant. In 
my laft Report I ftated that a thaw commenced in the evening of the 27th of Decem- 
ber, and continued till: the 4th of January. In the morning of the 2d we had fome tnow, 
but, (although the wind was north eaft,) no froft. It was on the night of the 4th that the 
froft re-commenced, and with great feverity. On the 14th we had fome fnow, and in the 
senfuing night a much heavier iall ttan.is ufual in the maritime’ counties of the south cuaft 
of England. On the i9th the wind changed: from north-eaft to fouth-eait, and the thaw 
was fo rapid as to flood a great portion of the low ground in the neighbourhood of the 
rivers. The 28th was a remarkably fine and warm day; but the 30th was one of the moft 
tremendous days I can recolleét. For mary hours we had a perfeét hurricane: the rain. 
was inceffant: perfons were fcarcely able to walk abroad; and bricks and tiles were ~ 
blown from many of the houfes. Confiderable damage has been done in various places. 
-January 6. I am informed that, in fome parts _ of Wilthire, the flocks of different 
fpecies of wild geefe, in confequence of the hard weather, are immenfely numerous. They 
_ have devoured ‘no {mall quantity of the blades of wheat which were fpringing up. Some 
of the fields, till they were driven away by the {port{men and farmers attacking t a with 
their guns, are fatd to have been almoft covered with them. 
Bitterns have been more numerous in the neighbourhood of the place from which I write, 
than they have for many years been remembered. Several of them have been fhot. 
They are doubtleis induced to approach the ccaft in confequence of the marthes in the 
»dnland counties having been frozen. 
Woodcoeks have, this year, been unufually fearce ; but fnipes have been Fadil To atk 
numbers. During the open weather they were upon the heatlis ; and fince the commence- 
ment of the froft they are found about ditches and fprings in the marthes. : 
January 17. Several goofeanders (mergus merganfer of Linneus) have been thot. A 
male and female were this day brought to me for examination. 
January 19. Some of the early flowers have- appeared ; amongf thefe Loilterte,| in 
- fheltered fituations in gardens, the winter aconite (he//eborus hyemalis), Chriftmas rofe 
(4elleborus niger}, andtnow-drops. The only ilower which now adorns the hedges is that 
of the furze. 
January 28,. This being an unufually mild and pleafant day, I walked for two ot three 
miles along the fea thore, and found on the fands feveral fpecies of coleopterous infects 
which had been thrown back by the tide. Amongf thefe I particularly remarked chrysomela 
stapbylea, feveral kinds of bydropbilus, and two or three ipecies of dermefies, all of them alive. 
‘There were alfo feveral boat-flies, xotonefta glauca, which perhaps had miftaken the falt 
‘water for freth. 
January 31. . I went again to the fhore, expecting that the tempeft of yefterday might 
have caft up fome fhells, and other marine productions that I wanted, 1 found mya truncata, 
mata subtruncata, and maéira fiultorum, in great Giiantities, but particularly the. former, 
which is in general a fomewhat fearce fhell on our coafts. There were likewife feveral 
kinds of sertularia, apbrodita aculeata, apbredita sguamata, afverias lacertosa, cancer aieahaon 
and cancer Jatipes. 
_ bean eoote, brent goofe, and leit were this day bropght to-me.. 
