... GOOD NEWS FOR WILD BIRDS. Under the heading * Good News for Wild Birds, Mr. John Pedder writes to Nature Notes to point out the means by which the Home Secretary can act for the protection of wild birds when applied to by the County Conneils. It ilo{ood ...

... A PLUCKY BLACKBIRD, Writing to Nature Notes, Y. A. Pitts relates that one morning in the spring there was a great disturbance among the birds in the garden. “The window looks out on to a thick ivy hedge that forms a very mhr nesting-place for the birds ...

... THE MOLOCH OF FASHION. Nature Notes prints an appeal to the clergy which bas just been issued by the Society for the Protection of Birds. It is from the pen of Mr. W, H. Hudson, and one passage runs : “In the case of some species of birds which are being ...

... acre of land in Innmbdmn the land of the Lord Abb. and that of X son of Thurstan. { To be continued.) | | A fine | the NATURE NOTES. ‘men of t:ndgnt-mi-lo'(ohuw . Dail '%.:aphk) in bloom in Miss Gibson's garden, {lll] House, Saffron Walden. Recently a ...

... will succeed, because the minister, while engaged cultivating his land, will lose touch with his people. A writer in “Nature Notes” states that there are unusual numbers of gadwall on the waters at Euston this spring—quite 150. This is curious, for in ...

... er small cost—£6so complete—and low working ugmmfl“ the company to adopt very low fares. & G. A. Dausesy contributes to Nature Notes a chatty account of forestry in Germany, where more than 2.‘: per cent. of the land is covered with trees. In Prussia 23 ...

... Later, Helvetius was called in, and he ad two ounces of confection of hyacinth to fortify the heart. A correspondent of “Nature Notes” relates s number of instances in which he has been hed won b; wild things of the woods. “‘ln E.dlev oods,” he u{t. “one ...

... though a staunch friend of this country, was perhaps the mostjpopular statesman in Hungary. Tus following (says a writer in Nature Notes) is worth recording. In the hollows of a small but aged elm-tree standing in front of a well-known inn on the Farinxdonroa ...

... it much Lngrto say ‘{not at home,” or “ call n?in.'to a lady than to one of their own sex. This the authorities have naturally noted, and we need not be surprised if we find the business of rate-collecting entrusted almost entirely to suasive maids and ...