... NATURE NOTES. DICKY BIRD SOCIETY. Through the eflorce of an Ambleslie gentleman the following additional names have been added r the Big Book of this Sleety :—Jahn Bows. Fred Gardner, Gerald tree. John Came. Charles Shrike, Charles K. Marshall, %Heed ...

... LAKELAND NATURE NOTES. SONG AND SPECIES. f Specially Contracted to the Gazette.! Close together, with only the width between them of quarry road and its two walls, overhung the boughs of the coppice trees they perch in, sing a garden warbler and a ...

... LAKELAND NATURE NOTES. [NESTING VENTURES: COMPARISONS.] Those last songs of summer, that we have been listening to in early July, are probably later this year than usual, because the nest-season which they are tbe accompaniment, has un the whole liecn ...

... LAKELAND NATURE NOTES. EVENING BY THE RIVER. The hot westering sun strikes across the river, which runs now softly and with low voice between fertile banks and amongst rucks and boulders. Every buulder and stone in the current shows a band above water ...

... > LAKELAND NATURE NOTES. % A SUMMER’S NCON. : ”WI—';UIE simmer and high noca as our boat slips the c!llt,h the shallows of the lake ! A breeze dapples fit Seper watars, and moving clouds throw from Yete to ti me cool shadows across the sunny landscape ...

... LAKELAND NATURE NOTES. LOST FLOWERS. The lost hirds of the British Isles have been bewailed time and again. They have bheen memorialised by the pen. of talent; and the selfishness of those individuals who, to secure a rare cluteh of eggs or a dead specimen ...

... presented the prizes to the successful scholars for an essay on kindness to animals (prizes given hy Mrs. Kemble) and for nature notes and collection of wild flowers (prizes given by Mrs. Richardson and Mrs. Holmes). A number of parents were in attendance ...

... OTHER BUB/NESS. A letter was read from Mr. Ware, of Amble. side, drawing attention to a paragraph in Nature Notes (the josznal of Hie Selbotuse Society), In which reference was made to the sale olparsley fern at Orselnere. Advert's& meats *ere in the ...

... THE ORIGIN OF THE LEMON. A pretty legend of the origin of the lemon is told by the author of Riviera Nature Notes When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, they were determined to take with them the seeds of certain fruit trees. For the primeval ...

... In this connection it may be worth while recording some remarkable statements of Mr. E. T. Daubeny, lately published in Nature Notes. The migratory movements of most birds (wrote that gentleman) are probably performed at a far greater distance from the ...

... had the best of the battle, and the spectator put the reptile, which measured about 18 inches long, out of its sufferinp. Nature Notes. Several paragraphs have been going the round of the papers about the cuckoo being heard. It is exactly five weeks ago ...

... OTHER BUSINESS. A letter was read from Mr Ware, of Ambleside, drawing attention to a paragraph in Nature Notes (the journal of the belbonrne Society), in which reference was matte to the sale of parsley fern at Grasmere. Advertisements were in the ...