... business not only essential, as it is. but all-important, as it is not. The Rev. Percy Myles, 13. A., F.L.S. (editor of . - Nature Notes), lecturing on The Names of Gar. den Plants, stated that in the case of many plantr the popular names were entirely ...

... Colman's residence has been further increased by the arrival of Mr. Herbert Gladstone, M.P., and Henry Gladstone. Writing to Nature Note., from Berkswell, Warwickshire, Mr. Alfred N. Hopkins fears that the Wild girds' Preservation Acts have not dens much good ...

... chapel doors lists of people qualified to vote August 20th is the last day upon which new claims can be sent in. Writing to Nature Notes, from Bekaa% Warwickshire, Mr. Alfred N. Hopkins fears the Wild Birds' Preservation Acts have not much good in that distriot ...

... district, and the men have been informed that their grievances will be submitted to the proper authority. Insect Music. In Nature Notes, the magazine of the Selborne Society, a correspondent in Natal mentions that he has frequently observed that when the ...

... are spoken about hint. In political warfare he has never hesitated to shoot, and though it is a curious phase of human nature, noted in journalism not less than in the Parliamentary arena, that a man habitually engaged in . prodding at others indignantly ...

... country districts were adopted. While I was ferreting in the centre of a field honeycombed with burrows, says a writer in Nature Notes, a couple of rabbits bolted, and were immediately followed, from the same hole, by a blue-rock pigeon. Shortly afterwards ...

... THE AMAZING TOAD. The toad that was lately found in a lump of coal (writes a correspondent in Nature Notes, the organ of the Selborne Society) is but one other instance of the way in which the queer, uncanny-looking little creature can lire, seemingly ...

... their own brethren. A 21b. Devon trout is probably responsible for the death of several stones' weight of his own kind.— Nature Notes. Surely a body of men such as the Volunteers was never before so kept back in every possible direction by those who, as ...

... How can this speed be attained? The birds resort to great heights, where the resistance of the air is slight. So says Nature Notes. There is not much chance of putting salt on the tails of these birds; besides, one wants it to take with the paragraph ...

... Is NA.TURZ CRUEL i Mr. W. G. Hilpack writes to Nature Notes: Many are distressed by the way in which a cat plays with a mouse before killing it. That the mouse does not suffer so much as might be expected is proved by certain facts told me by a ...

... distant future will result in the cats of that time having 24 toes, with, perhaps, further developments? The cat story from Nature Notes, which has been going the round of the papers recently, will be hard to beat. The writer asserts that a cat having caught ...

... abandoned as *means of traction, we are not sure whether the species will benefit. Horses may then be fattened for food.— Nature Notes. By allowing the inmates to eat as much bread as they pleased instead of serving out the regulation weight, ten tons of ...