... Anthony Rope and The Four Feathers by A. E. W. Mason are continued. Timm is a very pleasant paper, full of interesting nature notes, entitled '• Selbcrne Revisited, contributed to Longman by Mr W. h, Hudson. Canva-s--ing in 1932 gives some amusing ...

... before them in sending out one vessel alone. Oar Earliest aad Latest Songsters. There has been some correspondence in Nature Notes as to which is the first of our songsters to sing in the morning and the last at night. A correspondent writing from ...

... Rats sod Sliver. Rats, like some other animals, seem to lta►e a partiality for silver. A lady correo,ondent, writing to Nature Notes, says: My sister was staying in a. lonely house in the B.lti. of Ireland during August of this year. One evening the housemaid ...

... £9596 1(n ld is in England, £3814 in Scotland, and the residue invested abroad. FLYING lereeas.—Mr K. T. Daubeny writes to Nature Notes estimating the migrating flight of the Virginian plover at the rate of from 600 to 700 miles an hour, and adds: H. Ostke ...

... extraordinary effects. Chlvalrens Chs.stletier. We often hear people speak of dumb animals (writes Mr G. T. Rope in Nature Notes ), a convenient way of expressing ignorance of their language. It would be about as reasonable to call a foreigner dumb ...

... Mr Henry James found the word, and provseiled with what he wished to say. is Nature Cruel? Mr W. 0. Kilpack writes to Nature Notes: - Many are distressed by the way in which a cat plays with a mouse before killing it. That the mouse does not suffer ...