... NATURE NOTE. Over a million earthquakes shocks are felt each year. Shucks! ...

... NATURE NOTE. A much debated question among ralists recently revived is that of animals. A few days ago one of our ktnown anglers hooked a fish near Bridge, an ...

... Nature Note. Whatever the fashionablc colour may be among the ladies, white the big note among the flowers just now. Fragrant elder, white rose, and ox-eye daisy are prominent among tho..• dre,,ed so chic fur the sunny days. ...

... Nature Note Another *flitting time” finds a good many country families without a settled home, and once more the towns are being raided for accommodation. In one Teviot parish there were at last weekend half a dozen families still seeking houses. With ...

... NATURE NOTE. THE LANDRAIL. Daring the past fortnight country dwellers must have frequently felt that the evening stillone was repeatedly broke. by the somewhat monotonous trek-trek of the cornorake. This bird, which is a vettrilcquist of no mean proficiency ...

... NATURE NOTE THE KT RR EM L'IR OBSERVER, Thursday, July 26, 1945 Wad Department of Health for Scotland and the Ministry of Food ...

... Nature Note* Sir, I had walk io countrj one day thu» week, and i * wondorljl what you can if you care to y*_. i„. , un shone strong and clear, the air was pure and iiiTigoratmg, and all nature was pulsating with quick, .led life. In my heart 1 thanked ...

... NATURE NOTE. Solans Shelter is Oyce at Sigma. The easterly gale over the week-end. writes a correspondent. must have played havoc among the btrds, so many of which are now on passage from the North. Many storm-tossed victims will be found around our shores ...

... Nature Note Life and Electricity Does electricity have an appreciable effect upon life to the extent that it can bring about lasting benefit or permanent changes? 'f so, woulo that fact, well established, explain the origin of the vuried forms of life ...

... NaTure NOTE. May is a busy month in bird-land. Robins, tits, and chaffinches are wearing their gayest plumage. Every hour of the day is ocenpied in nest-building. Early builders such as crows, blackbirds, thrushes and sparrows, are busy attending to the ...

... Nature Note Heather was extensively damaged by the ! heather beetle in Kintyre in certain years, writes “D.M.” in the Nature Notes column ! of the “Scotsman”. Flocks of brown | starlings, comprising many young birds and a few old starlings, moved to the ...

... Nature Note Honey-Bee and Fruit Trees I have noticed this fact about the honey-bee—there are many kinds of ‘blossom that it either never visits, or only very occasionally, and that it seems as though the role assigned to it as a universal pollinator of ...