Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club, 12. köideGurney & Jackson, 1906 |
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A. E. Gibbs Albans Aldbury April atlas average beds Berkhamsted birds bottom corner Bourne Broxbourne Bushey Heath butterfly Chalk Colne colour considerable Corresponding Societies Council Daniel Hill Datchworth DAYDON JACKSON days late dial district E. P. Thompson edition EDWARD MAWLEY Engraved FIELD CLUB FIELD MEETING flower garden Geology Harpenden Hertford Hertfordshire HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY Hitchin House hypopus insects JOHN HOPKINSON July June Kitchener's Meads larvæ Lepidoptera Lewis Evans LL.D London map of Herts Meteorological miles 1 inch month moths NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY NATURALISTS nest noctilio number of days observed in Hertfordshire Odsey P. J. Barraud Park plants Price 11s rain rainfall Read at Watford record Report reprint Road Sawbridgeworth Scale seen species specimens stations temperature top corner Totternhoe Stone Transactions trees Tring usual Valley Watford weather Weetwood wettest day William Bickerton Winter Wood
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Page 13 - I call to remembrance my song : and in the night I commune with mine own heart, and search out my spirits.
Page 16 - BOWDITCH WITH warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight From life's glad morning to its solemn night ; Yet, through the dear God's love, I also show There 's Light above me by the Shade below.
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