... three pieces of music, of about five pages each. By each of these pages he gained },365 francs. For a bar 12 fr., for a natural note 6 fr., for sharps and flats 3 frs. each, for a quaver one frane and a half, for a semiquaver 15 sous, for a demisemiquaver ...

... dreary volumes, but though the plot be never so poor, through them all, showing here and there, runs the beautiful stream of nature notes, like a golden thread in a cotton garment, sparkling and flashing all the more brilliantly for the contrast of the poor ...

... third ; later on it is F j natural aud D, the descending minor third ; and afterwards E aud I>. Daffodils.—A writer in Nature Notes, calling I attention to the iniquity of rooting wild flowers to sell them to English dealers, says he could name a district ...

... cholera •tricken town to give benefit in favour of the so-called victims of cholera. Ducks Learning to Swim writer in Nature Notes says that most of the ducks in Kensington Gardens make their nests in the trees. Wherever there is dwarfed tree, or where ...

... NATURAL _ NOTES. LONDON CORRESPONDENCE OF MKMBSRS. Mwy country ra.denU of turn of Cabin.t hare decidrd that payment of mind have emphatic belief in the friendly will not form part the programme of egmrd of the nurtio towards those among whom * coming ...

... nearly the whole of which are the products of VIPERS SWALLOWING THEIR VOUNG. Mr. Gerard writes to the current number of Nature Notes, putting on record a piece of evidence which seems to him particularly valuable, because word on the the witness had never ...

... cold, frogs are often frozen to death in dyke-beds. Since writing the above, I see that the Rev. E. T. Daubeny writes to Nature Notes questioning tho statement that frogs snd toads remain under water, in mud, during three or four months of the year. He ...

... naturalist, living Haddiscoe, a hamlet the midst of the East Anclian shea, sends me, under date of March 2Cth, the following nature notes: A friend mine shot a bitteni this winter. The open weather brought our breeding redshanks this season; noticed several ...

... through the Woods in January is the title of article Mr. F. J. Underwood, of Coventnr, which appears in the currcntiesueof Nature Notes: The Selborne Society's Magaxiae. In the casnaKy lists published yesterdav nnder the heading Deaths from Disease.*’ was ...

... NATURE’S NOTES. I have observed, Mr. Punch, that all the daily papers have taken lately to publishing a column about birds, beasts, and flowers, which figures pleasantly, not to say unexpectedly, among political speech** and Stock Exchange reports. Why ...

... almost all over the world as read it used to in former ages. In these modern days of scientific research says writer in ** Nature Notes”), when the greatest importance is placed on the discovery new germ which will spread disease amongst us. it is astonishing ...

... HEAD DECORATION While on @ recent visit to (writes a correspondent of ‘‘ Nature Notes”) I was much interested to find some of the old houses etill retaining little bits of stone stuck into the mortar joints of the walls, which Gilbert White describes ...