It is not known why Caroline Molesworth (1794-1872) began to make
these detailed observations in the garden of her home in Cobham,
Surrey. She was interested in botany, and when she moved with her
widowed mother from London to Surrey in 1823, she undertook an
almost daily survey of nineteen categories of information, which
she maintained (with help in later years, as her health failed)
until 1867. This 1880 publication, edited with a biographical
introduction by the entomologist Eleanor Ormerod (1828-1901),
summarises Molesworth's records for the period 1825-50. Ormerod
explains the methods and instruments Molesworth used, and provides
a complete record of the phenological detail over a 25-year period:
she therefore omits what she considers less relevant meteorological
data. The records enable year-on-year comparisons of dates on which
flowers bloomed or migratory birds arrived, and this information
remains of use to anyone studying long-term changes in climate.
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