... 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, 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. Mr R. Lloyd Praeger records the occurrence in a cold greenhouse at Macedon, Belfast, of cyathus vernicosus, the small birds'-nest ftulgu4. It has been found, year by year, for more than twenty years in flowerpots containng various plants ...

... NATURE NOTES. On the east coast of Englaad, where hook and line fishing is most extensively carried on, immense lines are wed. Some of them are about eight miles long, and carry nearly 5,000 hooks. The natives of the South Sea Islands use the wood o 6 ...

... NATURE NOTES. Worms that have no eyes are believed to gain information of the presence of light from some other sense than that of sight. Light is always dangerous to an earth-worm, and when taken from the earth and placed in a light a worm will always ...

... NATURE NOTES, The Danube flows though countries in wLich fifty-two languages and dialects are poken. It bears its current four-fifths of the of Eastern Europe. The owl's eyes have no muscles by wilich they can be moved, but the extraordinary flexibibty ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE HOODED CROW. Some particulars of the passage of hooded crows are given in Herr Gatke's interesting work, The Birds of Heligoland. Gamekeepers will despair of ever keeping them within bounds on hearing that a migration column, at least ...

... NATURE NOTES, EARTHQUAKES IN SAXONY. The little village of Eisleben is said to be fall ing into decay from the fact that it has been subjected to a series of earthquake shocks more or less severe, since 1892. This village was the birthplace of Martin ...

... NATURE NOTES. The workmen employed by the Barnard Castle Urban District Council have been aware for some tine that a wild rabbit was living quite contentedly in the neighbourhood of Galgate, Barnard Castle. Vehicular traffic and foot passengers are constantly ...

... NATURE NOTES. A committee of the Society has been appointed to do what is possible in pro tecting those Britiah Lepidoptera which are in danger of extermination. Information is invited from local societies. It is stated that Mr C. R. Bishop has ouch, ...

... NATURE NOTES. Meet people know that man and the starfish have one bond in common—a consuming love for oysters. It is only now that science has discovered how the five-rayed plunderer gets se his booty. Hitherto burglary and housebreaking have been the ...

... Nature Notes. [By RAMBLER.] The Editor of the Northern Weekly Gazette offers, until further notice, two half-crown prize. each week for the best paragraph on Nature for this page. The prizes are offered to rtimulate original observations, similar to ...