... NATURE NOTES in Scotland, “ Presently the gentieman (being of a generous disposition) over-tooke me with uner:med and undeserved courtesie, b t me to a lodging and caused my horse to be put into his own stable, whilst we, discoursing over a pinte of Spanish ...

... Nature Notes from THERE is some kind of contradiction here. The muscles are clenched, the body is braced to meet the assault of another Scottish winter. I tft up every morning tl(htitif e cold like an enemy, ca ms it names, wishing it evil; and over breakfast ...

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... Nature Notes FIRSOFF bend of the glen, about a mile south of . the lochan, the old road sweeps neatly round the rocky corner; but it is humpy in its lower part, which the horse-drawn transport of the day did not mind much. According to the Taymouth papers ...

... NATURE NOTES GORDON remained in the district, made his way to Sutherland, where it is said that he remained for some years under the protection of the Chief of the Mackays, who afterwards became Lord Reay. It is interesting to record that within the past ...

... NATURE NOTES Heronry is ‘The threat to one of OScotiands declining number of heronies—that on Shieldaig Island, Shieldaig Loch, Rossshire—has been averted. Thanks to the co-operation of the Edinburgh office of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ...

... NATURE NOTES VISITOR very ‘conspicuous object against the brown branches and the green grass. We watched it disappear and reappear in the maze of piled branches, and then luddengr it sniffed the air on a low wall and ‘made straight for the bird table ...

... 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 ...

... Nature Notes RABBIT he the preface ...

... 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 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 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 ...