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... NATURE NOTES. ROCK BUIWERII. Them little builders do their wort didly. sad It is still going on. They l►bour at the bottom et the deep sea, which though it wee ones thought to be devoid of life, is now found to be • pomiloue empire, thronged with notice ...
... NATURE NOTES. SOMETHING LIKE AN EGG. An rgg weighing bfoL, and measuring eight inches in circumference, bats been maid by a Nottingham hen. A WONDERFUL CAVE. One of the largest eaves ever explored recently been discovered on Lime Fork Creek, in Southern ...
... NATURE NOTES. A HARVEST OF EELS. Over four tons of eels have bees dispatched .from Thorpe, in the Fens, within the tau iew days, to London. They were caught as a result of a trench being cut from an overful mere to the ma in order to set free the flood ...
... NATURE NOTES. ATB AS SCARECROW*. ♦ correspondent a novel scarecrow few miles from Maidstone. farmer had several eats killed, stuffed, and pieced . n threatening attitudes among the branches ut his fruit trees. Not a bird will anywhere nom orchard. arrIVE ...
... NATURE NOTES. FIGHTING BONGSTERB. A correspondent says he has twice recently open blackbirds chase a cat. The cat both cases led for safety into ► home. CLIMBING RABBITS. The feet of some Australian rabbits show an adaptation which is being gradually ...
... NATURE NOTES. REMARKABLE VITALITY. The vitality of the snail is remarkable. that was glued to a card in a museum for years ease to life on being immersed in warm weber. biome specimens in the colketion of a revived after they apparently had lasso dead ...
... NATURE NOTES. INSTINCT OF SIM. Instinct is defined as any action which the bird does when there is no choice. The inherited instincts an as necessary to We as the inherited structure. The instincts are all ready for them as soon as they are hatched. Many ...
... NATURE NOTES. guar lIEEB. At Hill Top, Beaulieu, Hants, • swarm of bees wee sueeesatully hired as far back ae February 17. SMOOTH SHEEP. The native sheep of Barbados are practically 'roofless, but are valuable for mutton production in warm climates. TIRELESS ...
... NATURE NOTES. VIPERS. Two fins vipers, each 25 inches in length, have been killed in Yorkshire on Barningbam Moor. YORKSHIRE FLORA. Out of a total of 1,425 known spvies of Brit ,-h plants no fewer than 1,033 are to be found in Yorkshire. ASSORTED PETS ...
... NATURE NOTES, A WONDERFUL PLANT. A ieinarkable fact connected with the ries plant is its almost entire immunity from t►e attacks of insects, and from tlsose diseases which infect the cereals and other vegetable growths, as also that it supplies a wholesome ...
... NATURE NOTES. CANNIBAL FIELD NICE. Perhays. in proportion to its .lxe, the shrew is the most ferocious and pugnacious animal known to science, not excluding the hirmidshle of Madagascar. The daily combats of shrews magnified to • 6ft. scale would be more ...
... NATURE NOTES. WHITE WATER HEN. A white veriatios of the common water-hes, killed at Stour, Dorset, last month, has bees reoeived at the Natural lii.tory Museum, South Neeelogton. MARVELLOUS CHRYSANTHEMUM. A chrysanthemum exhibited at the World's Fair ...