... NATURE NOTES. AM UNDESIRABLE ALIEN. A live locust, two inches long, with blown wing covers marked with black, baa been caught in Leeds market. ...

... NATURE NOTES, COAST WILDFOWL. Wildfowl are reported to be numerous along the Essex, Kentish, Norfolk, and Suffolk coasts, where excellent feeding grounds are obtainable in the estuaries and creeks of the Thames, Blackwater, Deben, Crouch, Tare, Stour ...

... NATURE NOTES. 4 am fo* aumiEit. Oh! for oae those good, oM-bsUona* rammers (sighs writer is tin “Westminster Gazette”) to put new spirit in us. when flowers and fruit os their proper seasons and not six weeks lata—if at all: when Britain craw her own ...

... NATURE NOTES. Leaning the pesapet of old Mess breakwater or nier.bred, and watching the playing about is the clear green depths below, ierhaps the last thought which is likely to to any of us is that we are looking on at a nay aetontihing thing. That ...

... NATURE NOTES. OF INSECTS. In no part of their behneher do inmate dig* mom ma/refines Mean when are preparing. far w velar* d their StMCled than are olumg and browns euridasly skilful, and pertinaciona—wctnein Sarah Beetles sad their kindred, where Imo ...

... NATURE NOTES. MUMMY WHEAT. Many people still believe, as did the ancient Egyptians, that wheat thousands years old germinate if sown. Experiments have been conducted Kew Gardens with what is known “mummy wheat” —that is, wheat found the cases of ancient ...

... NATURE NOTES. . INSECTS AND FLOWERS. .. . Most people would accept it »e aa the ootoor ot flowers was to attract j-t—y. ud to further the process of croutollination by which many flowers surrire; his theory, which had the support of Darwin, ami BornweL ...

... NATURE NOTES. HARVEST OF EEU. Over four tons of eels he«B «i»P«cne« from Thorpe, in the Fens, within last few days, to London. They were of a trench being cut the sea order set free the Sped wnter. local fishermen industnously set inter cepting the fish ...

... Nature Notes. Education of Young Cirds. Last summer, writes T. 11. in the Glasgow Timis, I watched two young king. fishers, which were beir.g fed by tf••• ,, +arena near the nesting hole. The two would sit about ou projecting roots and snags, their ...

... NATURE NOTES. 1 i , , . SOMETHING LIKE AN EGG. egg weighing s}oz., and measuring eight inches in circumference, has been laid Nottingham hen. A WONDERFUL CAVE. One of the largest caves ever explored has recently been discovered on Lime Fork Creek, in ...

... NATURE NOTES. A MAMMOTH MUSHROOM. A mushroom meuuriitg lOin. is flirniMitof baa been gathered Urmaton, BEES IM THE LAMP. A swarm of beea took poasaaaion of aigna lamp on the Uidlend line at Fiaedoa, porter having considerable trouble in removing the insects ...

... nature NOTES. COWARD SHARKS. „ . The cowardice of rimrka. i» Siftings ”) the yto^ngdw^ always in partisn half ■. “t water, that they , and thus frighten sway mnng natives foolishly oatadre® , *l*ben there and forget* to keep hi* is a swish, the man-eater ...