... NATURE NOTES. By REV. lIILDERIC FRIEND, F.L.S. The forerunner of that most interesting group of plants known as Orchids has made its appearance in the shape of the Early Purple Orchis (Orchs ntascula), known in the North of England as Crowteet, and in ...

... NATURE NOTES. BY REV. HILDERIC rRIEND. THE EVOLUTION OF FLOWERS. Flowers are among the most beautiful, attractive, and varied of the productions of nature. Their colours, odours, shapes, possess a perennial charm. Looking, for example, at the wild rose ...

... BY REV. HILDERIC FRIEND. L NATURE NOTES. At this season of the year we find, both in a wild and in a cultivated condition, a number of plants in full flower, though they are absolutely devoid of foliage. Not that this'peculiarity is literally restricted ...

... NATURE NOTES. BY HILDERIC FRIEND. The c ireful study of Nature shows us that all animated things are under the spell of two mighty forces, without which life would speedily degenerate, and becorn ° effete. Whether we look to man for illustration, or tom ...

... NATURE NOTES. BY REv. FRIEND. I regret to find that a remark which I made in a recent issue of this paper has been somewhat too truthful. I complained that the Editor of the new journal entitled THE NATURE LOVER had introduced his periodical with a ...

... NATURE NOTES. BY REV. HILDERIC The mild weather which has so long prevailed, unbroken save by one brief spell of frost, has caused unusual forwardness among plant and insect life. A fly was observed several days ago on my study window, which had newly ...

... NATURE NOTES. BY REV. HILDERIC FRIEND, T.L.S. THE RATHE PRIMROSE. Long as there's a sun that sets. Primroses will have their glory.— IV° RDSWORTH. Never was the primrose more popular than it is today. If it has not been so fully interwoven with the ...

... NATURE NOTES. BY REV. HILDERIC FRIEND. A HAPPY NEW YEAR to all who read these lines. A great calamity has befallen the scientific world, through the sudden accidental death of Prof. Milnes Marshall, F.R. S., at the foot of Scawfell, on the 31st ult. Surely ...

... A CASE OF PEVERSION. A writer in Nature Notes says he was greatly surprised the other day to learn, on the authority of a keeper, that most of the ducks in Kensington Gardens make their nests in the trees. Wherever there is a dwarfed tree, or where ...

... Tllll FLYING lIQVIIIIIIIL. The Children's Column of the Selboree Sceiety's Magazate, Nature Notes, contains a few remarks upon the flying squirrel. There is at the present moment one of these animals at the Zoological Gas dens in London. It can hardly ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...