... NATURE NOTES. M114./ONS Lim. --- Every known plant is occasionally inhabited by own particular species of aphis. These curious little insects breed with wonderful rapidity, a French naturalist proving that a pair of them will, within six weeks, produce ...

... NATURE NOTES, ammeimmo Liszt .1 Aim& io darkness or ord liglit ono 'EMU* b.losvior, but to kayo oily odo roma as those born wider normal ow idiom Aity can distinguish • poisonous serpent from a one. for a invariably • triangular shaped and • blaut nose ...

... NATURE NOTES:* A NATVRAL The palm has the largest haves of any tree. The Inaja palm of the Amazon country has leaves which reach • length of from thirty to fifty feet, and • breadth of from ten to twelve feet. The leaves of the Talipot palm of Ceylon ...

... NATURE NOTES. Wertaitszs. The whiskers of cats are very sensitive, enabling the animals, when seizing their prey in the dark, to feel its position more acutely. These hairl are supplied, through their roots, with branches of the same nerves that give ...

... NATURE NOTES. DOG V. MN. A remarkable angling incident is reported to have occurred in the River Weaver Two &11. glerc were flaking no Hunday, and the bait of I.lJ^ nf then was seised by a pollo with such voracity that float, hoe, rod, sad all were dragged ...

... NATURE NOTES. at • pair of robins have built trier Mit Pi ars now dr* young ones in damp room in Ewell School, Dover. wirers forty to Ifty daily airsiebts. The birb show us sign of fear fainliag their young in the preseaos of tits clans. Ten Weems., The ...

... NATURE NOTES. I WONDERFUL PLANT. — A remarkable fact connected with the rice pbuit is its almost entire immunity from the attacks of insects, and from those diseases which Infect the and other vegetable growths, as that it supplies a wholesome diet for ...

... NATURE NOTES. A GIANT 07TN1. Visitors to the Natural History Hamm at South Kensington DOW have the opportimity of easing a new specimen of the giant otter of South America. The present excellent and well mounted example replaces an old and badly-mounted ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Australia* platypus is of the sleet interesting of all animals. owing to It. possessing physical resemblance to many other creatures. It has fur like a seal and the bill of a deck; it lays eggs, and yet it suckles its young. MI YINTIZATOINS ...

... NATURE NOTES. PLAIITS AND SUICIDE. 110 plants ever commit suicide The County Gesitleman MAWS a suggestion of the kind in of some of the clematises. You can (it says) plant a clematis which does admirably for a few months, even for a few years, in a ...

... NATURE NOTES. KANT Homogenous. Japanese horses wear sandals of rice straw, of which are attached to the saddle, be renewed when necessary. The Iceland peasant shoes his pony with sheep's horn. In the upper Oxus valleys horseshoes made of the antlers of ...

... NATURE NOTES. now BANsoos BLoom. Bamboo plants are said to have the peenliarity of blooming at exactly the same time. whether in Europe or Africa. the difference is climate and surroundings seeming to make no change in the plants bursting into Sower. ...