The Naturalist's Diary

Abstract

THIS book may be described as a most excellent vade mecum and guide to any person who not only wishes to keep a phenological diary, but who wishes to know whit to enter therein. The preface and introduc tion show forth the principles which have guided the author in making this compilation, and the important services it may be made to render to biologists and to men of science, as well as to practical gardener-, agriculturists, sportsmen, and residents in the country generally. It is also recommended to the notice of tourists, and especially to those who find themselves perchance perforce anchored in some one of our numerous health resorts, cut off from their usual avocations. Mr. Roberts's observations have been made on the breezy downs of Marlborough in con nection with the Marlborough College Natural History Society, 1864-84. They include registration of mean, maximum, and minimum temperature in sun and shade, “accumulated temperature” above 42° day-degrees, baro metrical observations, rainfall, and direction of wind. The Naturalist's Diary. Arranged and Edited by Charles Roberts, &c. (Swan Sonnenschein, Le Bas, and Lowry, Paternoster Square).