... NATURE NOTES. INSECTS AND %FLOWERS. Most people would accept it as an axiom that the colour of flowers was designed to attract insects, and so to further the process of crosspollination by which many flowers survive ; but .t►is theory, which had the support ...

... NATURE NOTES. CANNIBAL FIELD IBM Pprhao,,fh proiloffloi Ito it. Ole, the shrew is the elostufairoliotte sad pugnacious animal known to seishownot excluding the formidable food ot Madagascar. The daily combats of shrews magnified to a aft. scale would ...

... NATURE NOTES: A WHISTLING TREE. The Tooter, or whistling tree of South Nubia, I. so 'called from the dote-like sounds made by the wind in itit branches. The sound is cavilled 'Thies bitted by an insect the spines et this benches. 1 . : A WONDERFUL SPIDER ...

... NATURE NOTES. SMALL MANMALB. Rapid progress is being made in the building of the new Small Mammals House at the gardens of the Zoological Society of London, and before many months have elapsed it will be ready for occupation. Hitherto, toe wont of space ...

... NATURE NOTES. A CANON'S GENEROSITY. She successful revival of the Birmingha bishopric scheme was largely due to the con m ditional benefactioa of £lO,OOO by an anonymous friend of Dr. Gore. Only during the last few months, and upon the occasion of his ...

... NATURE NOTES SHELTER PLANTATIONB. Before the Newcastle Farmers' Club, ow Saturday, Mr. A. C. Forbes read a paper on Shelter Plantations for Cattle. The only alternative to shelter belts, he said, was buildings, and these were too expensive. His idea ...

... NATURE NOTES. CA/. SKI 171 THE DARK, The aye-aye, here illustrated, is stated to sleep during the heat, and glare of the tropical day, and to move about chiefly at night. The wide openings of the eyelids, and the whole oonstruction of the eye, are ar ...

... NATURE NOTES. Lotto Jouatrzys. So extensive are the feeding rounds and so rapid the movements of the wild ostrich, that as many as fifty or sixty miles are often travelled by it between daybreak and dark. MTSTID TO LITE. It is a common experience amongst ...

... NATURE NOTES. PLYnto Tnnoron Gtssa. Some idea of the terrific force with which a bird passes through the air may be gainer from the fact that a common curlew fee right through a piece of plate-glass • quarter of an inch thick. ...

... NATURE NOTES. RESPECTING WHALES. Vessels belonging to Dundee whaling Beet bring back sorry accounts of the Davis Straits whale fishing. The weather has been very bad. Fog, ice, and anew greatly handicapped the crews in the prosecution of the fishing, ...

... NATURE NOTES. A HARVEST OF EELS. Over four tons of eels bare been dispatched from Thorpe, in the Fens, within the last lew days, to London. They were caught as a result of a trench being cut from an overful mere to the sea in order to set free the flood ...

... NATURE NOTES. APPLEB IN ABUNDANCE. Everybody is agreed that this is one of the meet wonderful years for apples ever knout!, and there is no reason to doubt the stories which come from all quarters of trees have actually more apples than leaves upon them ...