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NATURE NOTES. (Rev. Hilderie Friend)

... NATURE NOTES. (Rev. Hilderie Friend). It is one of the duties of the Naturalist to record the dates when plants cease to flower, and another to observe the time of opening. During a walk along the road from Cockermouth to Pardshaw on June 13th I made ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1895
Newspaper: North Cumberland Reformer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 606 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BOWSCALE TARN AND MIINGRISDALL BY•PATHS IN LAKELAND

... what is this ? A sp ick and span travelling van—tent and all complete. Can ft be the ever genial writer of Science and Nature Notes who has strolled thus far Happy thought ! I will interview bim in the interests of the readers of the Weekly Post. ...

Published: Tuesday 02 July 1895
Newspaper: Penrith Observer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1183 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A CUCKOO CAUGHT IN ITS OWN

... A CUCKOO CAUGHT IN ITS OWN The Rev. Julian C. Tuck writes from Toetock Rectory, West Suffolk, to Nature Notes One day about the middle of June I saw a cuckoo in our garden apparently flying moo an ivy-covered wall, which has been for years a favourite ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1895
Newspaper: Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A CHAFFINCH'S FRIENDSHIP

... A CHAFFINCH'S FRIENDSHIP. correspondent tells, in the new number of Nature Notes, an exceedingly interesting store about a cheffluch's friendship. My aunt and I,* she says, made friends with a male chaffinch who lived in our garden, and when he paired ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1895
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 717 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE MILLOM GAZETTE-SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 1.8, 1896,

... table. She threw one on the fire. and the other two were prodnoed. The primmer was further remanded. THE MOLOCH OF FASHION. Nature Notes prints an appeal to the clergy which hes just been breed by the Society for the Protection of Birds. It is from the pen ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1896
Newspaper: Millom Gazette
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2456 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TILE ItOLOCH OF FASHION

... TILE ItOLOCH OF FASHION. Nature Notes prints an appeal to the clergy which kas just been issued by the Society for the Protection sf Birds. It is from the pen of Mr. W. H. Hudson, and one passage runs: In the case of some species of birds which ere ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1896
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 365 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HOME RULE IN THE NEST

... HOME RULE IN THE NEST. Mr. H. J. Ormerod, in Nature Notes, refers to the natural pugnaciousness of the youngjsokdaw. Watching a family of jackdaws, he found the young one turning out the parent, seizing him by the throat and shaking him with indignation ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1896
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 554 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... carefully observed, the number and marking of the eggs noted, there is more real pleasure (says Mr.'''. W. Ashley, writing in Nature Notes) in leaving everything as you found it, and ,listening to the happy chirruping of the little owners as you retire, than ...

Published: Saturday 06 June 1896
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 997 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LORD KELVIN'S JUBILEE. Among Lord Kelvin's achievements, his tenure of a University professorship for 50 yeses ..

... of his experiments and made so many of his discoveries. A. PECUIJAR HIVE. Of all places in the world, says a writer in Nature Notes, for *swarm of bees to set up housekeeping one would think the unlikeliest to be the roof of a house in a London suburban ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1896
Newspaper: Millom Gazette
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 506 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A THIEF'S STREET STRATEGY

... She was promptly apprehended, and the thief was rearrested. A PECULIAR HIVE. Of all places in the world, says a writer in Nature Notes, for a swarm of bees to set up housekeeping one would think the unlikeliest to be the roof of a house in a London suburban ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1896
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1775 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AN ELEPHANT'S BRIGHT IDEA

... AN ELEPHANT'S BRIGHT IDEA. A correspondent writes to Nature Notes: —One day, when my brother and I were at the I Zoological Garden+, we went to feed the elephants with a bag of biscuits. We were amused by the way they stretched out their trunks through ...

Published: Wednesday 05 August 1896
Newspaper: West Cumberland Times
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 3 | Tags: none