... little white innocent-faced lambs gambolling by their side, the objects of tender solicitude to these mothers. A writer in Nature Notes tells a pretty story of a mother with twin lambs, one of which seemed quite different from the other. He observed it wandering ...

... LARKS OR SPARROWS? Larks are now often in the mina. They make, in truth:a delicate ule4. but, asks Nature Notes, is it agreeable with Selbornian feeling to eat them? They are being consumed by tens of thousands, and are► rapidly diminishing in numbers ...

... ne to the petroleum. Carbide so treated gives off acetylene quite regularly under the action of water. Ms. Mosa.vr. in Nature Notes, calls attention to the great destruction of monkeys on the Gold Coast for their skins. Some 200,000, valued at £30,000 ...