... NATURE NOTES. Poxp 1™ A Prant. g In British Guiana a plant is fourd called * Heliamphora Nutans.” It grows in marshy ground, and is nhnped so that centipedes, ete., crawling over 1t fall dowm into a cuplike receptacle oontahi:g water, and are drowned ...

... NATURE NOTES. ADVENTURE WITH LIONS. A correspondent at Blantyre, Central Africa, relates a thrilling adventure with lions. FKour waggons from Blantyre, returning from Ukate, on the shore of Lake Nyassa, after unloading cotton there, camped at ni%ht in ...

... NATURE NOTES, Lowa Jounwxvs. £ So extensive are the f«dim rounds gnd so rapid ‘the movements of ‘wild 'odstrith, that s many as fifty of sixty miles are &ften travelled by it between daybreak and dark.’ ...

... NATURE NOTES, Parice ProTECTION POR BIRDS. A tomtit has built its nest in a lams-pul elose to the Ashbourne Police Station doors, Staffordshire. Under police su rvision the parent birds are rearing their ;:mily without molestation. A Birp TrAT CLivps ...

... NATURE NOTES Rocked on her breast, these pines and I Alike on Nature's love rely, And cqual seem to live and die, Assuied that He Whose presence fills With light the spaces of these hills No evil to His creatures wills ™ Whattier After the long weeks ...

... NATURE NOTES. AgBANGEMENTS have been made by the secretary and committee of the *“Hope to Progper © Silver Band, North Skelton,| Tp many meadows and woods the wild with the Corporation of Ripon for the|dafiodil is blooming freely now. It is band to give ...

... NATURE NOTES: BILRERHIES. A marked feature of the trade of the week in the {1 lit markets of the Midlands has been the bilb.rrv boom. As there is ashortage inthe English black currant crop the retail fruiterers buy up the cleap foreign bilberries readily ...

... NATURE NOTES. WueN Ttae Lomster Movirs, Below is a sketch of a lobster’s claw, which explaine how the lobster, wishing to shed its shell, withdraws the fleshy part of the big claw through the narrow opening at the base of the limb. Ifnut'hu llnkeu'h jz:: ...

... NATURE NOTES. SINGING INSECTS. Among the natural curiosities of Japan are its singing insects. The most prized of these tiny musicians is a black beetie named «gusumushi,” which means ‘““insect bell.” The sound that it emits resembles that of a little ...

... NATURE NOTES. Braruike Smrprerp Doos. A It has already been noted by acientists that certain mountain dogs have shapes and assume attributes resembling those of a bear. Among these dogs the lheeg dog of the Pyrences bears a closer resemblance to the bear ...

... NATURE NOTES, A Recorp Ece. The strangest find of recent date is that of an egg measuring 32 inches in length and 26 inches in girth, with a capacity of two gallons or 150 times that of the ordinary hen's egg. Ome could scarcely call it a breakfast egg ...

... NATURE NOTES. There is a special mercy in the shining faces of the year’s first flowers; for when the turn of the year tends our thoughts ahead to the steeped days of Summer we long for much sunshine, and generally get little, and that not over warm. ...