... to make an English summer and it can't be the mildness of our April and May that has brought the nightingales. One other nature note by an amateur. The first cockchafer sloshed in my bedroom coincided exactly with the first salmon- reeling note of the ...

... of a British man-of-war AN OPERATION IN PROGRESS ON A NAVAL VESSEL, where much of the equipment is of a rough-and-ready nature. Note the anaesthetist administering his drug straight out of the bottle, by hand A BATTLESHIP'S SICK BAY IN WARTIME, when most ...