... NATURE NOTES. 13 Y HILDERIC FRIEND. The abnormal character of the present season may be gathered from the fact that the hedgerows in the lake district are at the present time (middle of September) gay with the nectar-laden blossoms of the honeysuckle ...

... By BILDERIC FRIEND, NATURE NOTES. Any young man with leisure, and the necessary equipment of scientific training,would find it a striking and profitable study to enquire why it is that when the higher vegetables—trees, flowering plants, ferns, and grasses—are ...

... NATURE NOTES. BY HILDERIC FRIEND. Snow in harvest! One has read of such a thing, but it is not every year that we experience the sight. Yet we have had so many surprises d tirin 4 . the past twelvemonth, that one or two additional abnormalities will create ...

... NATURE NOTES. BY HILDERIC FRIEND. The c ireful study of Nature shows us that all animated things are under the spell of two mighty forces, without which life would speedily degenerate, and becorn ° effete. Whether we look to man for illustration, or tom ...

... Haltwhistle, on the 24th inst., Thomas Forster, the dearly loved son of Thomas and Margaret Waugh, aged 20 years. R.I.P. NATURE NOTES. BY HU.DERIC FRIEND. The testing time has come. For months past the nature lover has been on parade. Everything has been ...

... John Graham, aged 78 years. SMITII. —At Denton Crescent, in this city, on the 6th inst., William smith, aged 3 years. NATURE NOTES. BY REV. HILDEBIC FRIEND. My first duty is to toll the death knell over two departed friends. The first of these is the ...

... NATURE NOTES. BY REv. FRIEND. I regret to find that a remark which I made in a recent issue of this paper has been somewhat too truthful. I complained that the Editor of the new journal entitled THE NATURE LOVER had introduced his periodical with a ...

... and small, On the whole nation let Thy blessings shower. 0 Thou Omnipotent Giver of all Castle Street, Carlisle. H. B. NATURE NOTES. BY REV. HILDERIC FRIEND. Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, has placed on record his respecting an Alpine eventide. He could never ...

... NATURE NOTES. BY REV. HILDERIC FRIEND. A HAPPY NEW YEAR to all who read these lines. A great calamity has befallen the scientific world, through the sudden accidental death of Prof. Milnes Marshall, F.R. S., at the foot of Scawfell, on the 31st ult. Surely ...

... BY REV. HILDERIC FRIEND. L NATURE NOTES. At this season of the year we find, both in a wild and in a cultivated condition, a number of plants in full flower, though they are absolutely devoid of foliage. Not that this'peculiarity is literally restricted ...

... NATURE NOTES. BY REV. HILDERIC The mild weather which has so long prevailed, unbroken save by one brief spell of frost, has caused unusual forwardness among plant and insect life. A fly was observed several days ago on my study window, which had newly ...

... BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS. NATURE NOTES. BY REV. HILDERIC FRIEND. My last notes were, by a slight oversight at the . . _ office, a week late, meanwhile, nature has been moving on, and left the snowdrops in the rear. They may some day overtake us again ...