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... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. Casting a backward glance over the past year, wo cannot avoid coming to the conclusion that it has been a very interesting ace for British naturalisis and nature-lovers. In every department of field natural history excellent work ...

... NATURE NOTES. ABUNDANT in every wood and tepee in Surrey, no bunch of wildflowers would be complete without a few of the yellow flowers of one or other of the pretty St. John's Worts. 'Mere can be no mistake about them, for quite apart from the general ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. FLORAL EMIGRANTS. Prom an interesting note just received from • Sydney correspondent it appears that some parts of Australia are not only overrun with rabbits, descended from some imported from this country, but that • few of our ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Brave Little Toadflax. A plant which blooms twelve months in the year, and is yet of considerable beauty in its lowly way, is a great treasure to the botanist. The ivyleaved toadfiaz is plentiful enough on walls in the country and on ...

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... NATURE NOTES For Feminine Fingers Easily Made. Lingerie. 6 .) etrfifiLY lingette.enui.bever so easy to make as It .to,deyl Of course. there are many of who still spend our precious leisure hours. and our even more precious MOW. Puttink in- numerable tiny ...

... NATURE NOTES AUGUST ON THE SEASHORE During the month of August there will be more people on holiday than at any other time of the year—and most of them will be at the sea. Many a seashore treasure will be brought to mother or father, or perhaps to a favourite ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. I' 4 = EiDINSX-0111Y BAT. No little attention is paid to bats that oar knowledge of their habit and distribution in this country is still very imperfect. short time ago it was considered that the reddish-grey or Natterer's bat was ...

... NATURE NOTES. IT appears to be the aim of every country lad to amass the largest collection a/ birds' eggs he can. It. matters little if he already has fifty thrushes' eggs, a few additional ones seem to be irresistible. Often a hole is made in each end ...

... NATURE NOTES London Birds—The Chaffinch. rrliE Chaffinch is to most. of us one the outstanding characteristics of late winter and early spring. Wherever one goes there are flocks of these pretty little birds wandering over the country in search of food ...

... NATURE NOTES London Trees.-4, The Holly. !UST at this time of the year there i s no tree more in our thoughts than the Holly, with which we are all, so glad• to decorate our haulm; Let us for a Levi minutes, hoWever, consider the Holly as a tree rather ...