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EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION OF BIRDS

... EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION OF BIRDS. Mr J. Jenner Weir gives interesting account iu Nature Notesof the extraordinary collectTou birds at the of Mr W. Ingram, M.P., at Wi stgate, living happily in every variety condition ; iu confinement iu very large ...

Published: Monday 05 September 1892
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Aittreil 2:), 1893]

... vary and season wild sport in Spain. The pine forest and the high sierra are not less fertile in sporting surprises and in nature-notes than is the marsh. The authors have tales to tell of ibex-shooting in the Sierra de Gredos of Old Castile, with ten days ...

Published: Saturday 25 March 1893
Newspaper: National Observer
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 281 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

COURT OF SESSION. FRIDAY, JULY 28. AN HISTORICAL SERMON

... COURT OF SESSION. FRIDAY, JULY 28. AN HISTORICAL SERMON. The of Stamford, M Nature Notes, has an account of some refire of GiThert White, now in the ppm-est:ion of the vicar of feneelea, South Devon. There ia ae letter to sister- I in-law, dated Selborne ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1893
Newspaper: Scottish Leader
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 278 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

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... tom sot banobsok im sbastba. _ • ivioasocs ono. he had LIAM left. . . . . . mum bum 'aimed , by • is Alarms. • wawa fa Nature Notes Was an inlsysilint el • al donna a abed TRa .we 'mu ia as Mont era modal bet Ain is • stunk Nall ibs Insilltisis et SW ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1894
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Dispatch
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 339 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BOOKS QE THE WEEK

... living things , whether moTin ; in sea or air or on earth—in short , he is something of a nature-poet as well as a taker of nature-notes . Tha pleasure o { a walk by the Eca ortheriFer side . or along the hedgerows or over the moors of his native county will ...

Published: Monday 30 April 1894
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 31322 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE PERILS OF JOHN WETHERAL: A NARRATIVE

... out just at the present moment. The inquest disclosed some other matters, which were not merely inferences; and these I naturally noted with care, in view of anything else that might ensue. It disclosed, for instance, that my wretched victim's name was Ralph ...

Published: Sunday 01 December 1895
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4357 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

IN the December number of Nature Notes will be found a very interesting contribution by Mr. John D. Batten on

... IN the December number of Nature Notes will be found a very interesting contribution by Mr. John D. Batten on Bats. He has kept and watched several of these creatures, and, among other curious things, he observed that the common bat is practically blind ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1896
Newspaper: National Observer
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 167 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

[July 18, 1896

... Hawtrey's reforms as Headmaster in the school and especially in College. Of the reforms in the school Mr. St. John Thackeray naturally notes the abolition of Montem as being the most important as well as the last. There was, of course, great and powerful opposition ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1896
Newspaper: National Observer
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 371 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

DIARIES , ALMANACS ,

... curious customs that still survive in England , on popular sports and pastimes , ar id other subjects ; and there are nature notes applicable to each month , and a budget of stray statistics on trade , . wrecks , railways , Post Office work , and ...

Published: Wednesday 23 December 1896
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

( 3 ) Memorials of Christio'a . A Record ot Art Sales from 1766 to 1830 . By W ,

... history , romance , or ballad-poetry—Douglas and Cawdor Castles , or Bomorsido and Drpbiirgli . Theso localisations of these nature • notes add immensely to their value and interest ; and the book derives additional attractiveness from its beautiful illustrations ...

Published: Thursday 20 May 1897
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1871 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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... author of • bed or ausinasolul play, not as • poor dad who ha. his brat, but a• • whin who boo sented an outrage agora nature. note talk, to put it very mildly, of the sensioal, and might more appropriately be pat into the mouth a or Mr tolbert's own ...

Published: Friday 08 October 1897
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Dispatch
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3125 | Page: 2 | Tags: none