... Adair, and Mr. Richard. eon for useful additions to the reading matter. Mrs. Blunt kindly paid a year's subscription for Nature Notes. In onoosetion with the latter, it may be noted that visitors frequently ask for a good illustrated work on &Web wild Bowers ...

... doings of their golden age. If they are lucky enough to spend it iu the country, they should be encouraged early to make nature notes, to observe the changes of the seasons, the dates of the coming and going of the birds and flowers. Much of the abiding ...

... a youth named Orini, known as the best rider of Milan, was thrown from his machine aalnatt a tree and killed instantly. NATURE NOTES. CUCKOO? Farm labourers and madmen seem (says ' Lots Ellis in his charming Echo oeuutr) side gossip) to be as pleased ...

... Peninsula, and of the United States from the Philippines. That is the true meaning of Asia for the Asiatics.— Ex-Attache.' NATURE NOTES. COWARD SHARKS. The cowardice of sharks is well-known moss men wbo have been meth to see m waters. The fiercest shark will ...

... am the King of th,r country, and I have nowhere else to entertain my friends. But M. Bonnier was soon set at his ease. NATURE NOTES. SINGING INSECTS. Among the natural curiosities of Japan are its singing insects. The most prised of these tiny musicians ...

... Shipping Lot, and the reposesutatione of the Mer ch ant Berrie* Gadd with regard to the includes of masters borne is Riad. NATURE NOTES THE AMOTBIIIIY lIWANS. There are more than a thousand swans at Abhotabury, living a perfectly natural life, dad none of ...

... hare been recovered, and some missing soldiers and carriers have come in. Captain Oltiordan's head has been recovered. NATURE NOTES. WHERE OATB WILL GROW. Country clergymen are often naturaliAs and close oim.t-rvers. The Rev. W. 11. Jeuoure, reotor of ...

... prisons and asylums. rhea the =perinea has not been made is really assenting.—Herailit Begbie, in the Westminster Clemette. NATURE NOTES. INSTINCT OF BIROS. Instinct is defined as any action which the bird does when there is no choice. he t inherited instincts ...

... LARKS OR SPARROWS I Larks are now often in the mese. They_ make, in truth, a delicate meet, but, asks Nature Notes, is it agreeable with Selbornian feeling to eat them! They are being consumed by tens of thousands, and are rapidly diminishing in numbers ...

... plasm do not come in contact with sewage matter. Wrexham will therefore continue to rear strawberries on the town towage. NATURE NOTES.: TORTOISES AND RAIN. The tortoise shows a greater dislike to end fear of rain than any other animal. Twenty-four hours ...

... foster-mother, and ran wildly about the field and bellowed piteously when the lambs were taken away. A TAME OTTER. In Nature Notes Mr. E. T. Dsuben puts in • plea for the protection of the otter. T here is at least one instance on record of this animal ...

... sufficiently amalgamated.— London Journal. THE EwGLISH LAKES VISITOR AND KESWICK GUARYIAN-SATI 7 RI)Av AUGUST 6, 1904. NATURE NOTES. ANIMAL POWER. Interesting tests were mad. recently in the Madison-square Gardens, New York, to detennihe the respective ...