... SPRING NATURE STUDIES By SCHOLAR IN EXILE' , (Concluding Instalment) Another Nature note recently referred to tho presence of one of the very earliest flowers of the year, familiarly known as the Barren Strawberry, or the Poteutilla Fragariastrum, and ...

... NATURE NOTES Birds ag pie, house.spai row , robin and thrush, building and laying. Insects.—Gnats and broods of other insects out on fine days. Frogs spawning. Tadpoles in class observation Jars. Plant life.—Flowers of daffodil, colefoot, goose. berry ...

... The addition of valves has made the chromatic scale possible to an instrument which at first was capable only f the natural notes of its tube. If the spirals of a French horn were straightened out the instrument would be 17ft. long. That is why they ...