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... NATURE NOTES Historic BRAEMAR CASTLE, the property of Captain A. A. C. Farquharson of Invercauld, is surely one of the most picturesque buildings on Royal Deeside. Charmingly situated on a grassy knoll on the north side of the Aberdeen-Braemar road about ...
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... NATURE NOTES Captain Fowke It is difficult to assess the contribu tion of Captain Fowke to the Royal Scottish Museum, as 1 have been un able to trage original plans of the build- Ing wihlCh In any case was erected by stages over a long number of years ...
... NATURE NOTES SQUIRREL SLIDE During the recent severe frost, I had occasion to cross a field to tend an ailing sheep. As I neared the wood, I saw a brown squirrel run and disappear into a ditch. In a moment he re appeared some yards down the ditch, In ...
... NATURE NOTES By Frances Collingwood » C £ : 2 T | vy ” ...
... NATURE NOTES Masonic precedent The Royal Society, like the Masons, has a rule to exclude religion and politics from its discussions and the President on assuming office takes an oath to further the objects of the Society. It has been suggested that this ...
... NATURE NOTES By lAN FINLAY i the north-east revea] unmisiakabdl was something in the nature of a quay. Some at least are thought to 1 gAYy Ve Pictish school of carving, and there can have been brought from the “ baileys,” a’::n between Christianity and ...
... NATURE NOTES By lAN FINLAY 312 AD. It was before this battie of the Mulvian Bridge that the vision is said to have appeared to him of the Flan,in( Cross inscribed “ By this, Conquer!” In another dream he was bidden to put the sacred symbol of Christianity ...
... NATURE NOTES By Maurice Lindsay ance much grace, ease and modesty, blended with a certain degree of grandeur and dignity, which seem to take no pains to show themselves.” The Scots, he thought poor storytellers, partly because their accent “gives an air ...
... NATURE NOTES Old traditions It was until lately a very small community, and everybody knew, and usually liked, everybody else who wrapped himself from the East Fife haars in the traditional scarlet gown, which in 1837 underwent a lengthening and the addition ...
... Nature Notes FIRST OF THE FIELDFARES One day in late October, as 1 was motoring down to Elie from Kilconquhar, 1 suddenly saw in the air ahead of me a flock of birds straggling westwards from the trees in the grounds of Elie House. I drew up immediately ...
... NATURE NOTES By FENTON WYNESS leg. threw the key into the River Dee and vowed that he would not unlock 1t until he had made r;&arnnon at the Shrine of St Peter in Rome. In due course, St Nathalan reached the Holy City and prayed at St Peter’s Shrine. ...