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... though a staunch friend of this country, was perhaps the mostAxipular statesman in Hungary. THE following (says a writer in Nature Notes) is worth recording. In the hollows of • small but aged elm-tree standing in front of a well-known inn on the Faringdonroad ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1901
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 832 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SCIENCE NOTES

... speed at which the mirthern blue-throat (declared to hare only Moderate powers of flight ) migrates. It gets, he says in Nature Notes fromßapt to Heligo- Mod in a spring night of barely nine hours. The Virginian plover makes 838 miles an hour in its isorney ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1902
Newspaper: English Lakes Visitor
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1823 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MID CUMBERLAND & NORTH WESTMORLAND HERALD, SA.TDRDA.Y, APRIL 19. 1902. LOCAL NEWS. tientiral alms. Owing to an ..

... with a bundle under his arm, having come from Halifax, Yorkshire. There has been some corresen dos on this question in Nature Notes. Mr. el. I. Daubeney writes:— The migratory movements of most birds are probably performed at a far greater distance ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 1902
Newspaper: Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 5353 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BIRD VENGEANCE

... BIRD VENGEANCE. A writer in Nature Notes describes an amusing encounter between a large swan and a little brown duck. The duck had apparently insulted the swan by trying to cross its path, for it was suddenly seised by the swan and held under the water ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2620 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CAPE FLORA

... flora in the world which is more dainty in its localism than that of South Africa. The Cape Peninsula. for example, says Nature's Notes, has a flora much more distinct from that of the Karroo, less than 100 miles away. than the vegetation of England is ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 488 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CAPE FLORA,

... flora in the world which is more dainty in its localism than that of South Africa. The Cape Peninsula, for example, says Nature's Notes , has a flora much more distinct from that of the Karroo, less than 100 miles away. than the vegetation of England is ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1903
Newspaper: English Lakes Visitor
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 506 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AMERICAN HUMOUR

... agriculture will succeed, because the minister, while engaged cultivating his land, will lose touch with his (vie. A writer in Nature Notes states that there ere unusual numbers of gadwall on the waters at Euston this spring—quite 150. This is curious, for in ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1903
Newspaper: English Lakes Visitor
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2752 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

EPITOME OF NEWS

... will succeed, because the mintater, while engaged cultivating his land, will lose touch with his leople. A writer in Nature Notes states that there are unusual numbers of gadwall on the 'waters at Euston this spring—quite 150. This is curious, for ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1357 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES. At the Summer Islands, lillapoul. Roe-•hire, a large seal ramrine um 2,u. has been shot by as Island Revenue olff_er. That Scotch exciseman belongs to the breed who, when happy, want W out and day something. • • • AN ARTFUL SNAKE. Seeing ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1903
Newspaper: English Lakes Visitor
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 152 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WOMAN'S WORLD

... are clean cut, so that they could not have been accidental. The shots were fired at intervals of about three minutes., NATURE NOTES. WHY ? At the Summer Islands, Ullepool, Ross-shire, a large seal measuring 6ft. 2in. has been shot by ea Inland Revenue ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2656 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ROYAL SERVANTS' CRICKET

... Reuter) been expelled from Prussia with his wife and other missionaries on account of their views on the subject of marrisg NATURE NOTES. SHEEP-MI.INQ BRABBSB. When one hears of sheep being killed by plants, it seems. natural to assume that the animal's deaths ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 3 | Tags: none