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... a NATURE NOTES. A Dc/a'la.zble claw^.z; It is wrcil-sknovwn thalt when frightened the iobster can, and doc, ciast ni cIlw, especiaily in cold vveather, probaibly vvithl the llotion of satis. vi /ying its captors nith a portion instead of the al wholoe ...
... . NATURE NOTES. Large Oysters. tlolny mentions that, according to the hi- torians of Alexander's expedition, oysters a foot in diameter were found in the Indian seas; and Sir James E. Tennent was unexpectedly enabled to corroborate the correctness of ...
... NATURE NOTES. THE OX-EYE DAISY. An intelligent gardener in the island of Colonsay, in the West of Scotland, said he had received, some years ago, seeds of the ox-eve daisy, which arrived in some packages from London, and now the daisy has taken entire ...
... NATURE NOTES. U d Imprisoned Miles, A Bombay doctor is exhibiting a really extra ordinary entomological specimen in a sn; .l e microscope. Fourteen months ago a coupiso5 mites from a Stilton cheese were placed on tie glass of the microscope with the point ...
... NATURE NOTES. C~ats as Clocks. t Ctbaeben made use of in all manner of w ats, hand noe he least curious is the manlner in t itwhich the peculiarity of their eyes have been fo 'turned, to asccount by the Chinese. Everyone h knows that cats can see in the ...
... NATURE NOTES. What an Eleephant Rats. The quantity of food necessary to support the 4 colossal frame of the elephant is great. The g daily rations of one elephant have been set down as follows:-A trnus and a half of hay, forty. two pounds of Swedish turnips ...
... NATURE NOTES. A Weird Little AnimaL One of the ?? most dreaded in Java is a , harmless little creature, called bv the natives ip malmag, and by English.-peaking people the C nr tarsius. The little animals are no larger thana' re il. common squirrel, but ...
... NATURE NOTES, The banana is the most prolific of all the fruits of (he earth, being forty-four times more productive than potatoes, and 131 times more than wheat. In the report for 1895 of the Observatory at Bidston Hill, near Birkenhead, one fact will ...
... NATURE NOTES. lie he The Wren's Requieiz. Us A few months aeo, says a writer in a naturalist Pt journal, I was spending some time with friends iu at | the southern part of Illinois. During my stay au ho incident occurred iihich astonished me not a, little ...
... NATURE NOTES. - - _ A fine specimen of the aloe tree is now (observes the Daily Graphk) in full bloom in Miss Gibson's garden, Hill House, Saffron Walden. Recently a fisherman killed on the Norfolk mast a specimen of the rare yellow Siberian warbler ...
... NATURE NOTES. T| '*AMan-Faced Crab, IOne of the most singular.looking of Dame Nature's creations is the famous iian-crab of P i Jalan, which fairly swarms in the inland seas a' t of that country. Its body is hardly an inch in 0° * length, yet the bead ...
... .NATURE NOTES. a A New Xind of Fly. We are blessed in ?? country with a new fly, which is desoqibed as perfectly harmless, and is glorified by the name of chryeochlainys nigri- i- formus. It was found iui Scotland, and is moderately sized- rather ...