18 APRIL 1931, page 13

It May Be Allowable To Express Disappointment That The Ideal

of preparing enclosures virtually invisible has not yet been attained. There are hollows in the chalk and ready- made screens which suggest architectural triumphs in the future.......

Of Course, Subtracting Value In This Regard From One Piece

of land should add a virtually equal value to another. Value is not destroyed, but transferred. Both the Government and the C.P.R.E. are busy with plans for compensating one......

It Is Curious That Three Pleas For The Grey Squirrel

have reached me within the week. They are perhaps the result of a stiffening of the campaign of extermination. The editor of the Field and others have formed a committee to......

Country Life

A PIONEER COUNTY. Suggestive evidence of what may be called the technique of progress will be heard at the fourth annual meeting next webk of the Council for the Preservation of......

* * * The New Zoo.

If there is any place more English—in name as in nature— than Whipsnade it must be difficult to find. What queer crooked little roads twist through " happy homely Hert-......

The Purchase Of This Lovely Upland, Just Now A Sportsman's

paradise, was a singularly wise act, was indeed a stroke of genius on the part of Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell. It will make the Zoo perhaps the best in the world. Most of us......

-no Organization Has Such A Chance As The British Empire

to advance research into botanical wealth, with new forms of food and fodder, of cotton and wool and fibre, of oil and drugs. And the chance is being taken. Sir Arthur Hill, the......

New Fruit.

Some accounts have recently appeared of the thornless blackberry that our Mendelians have " invented," an accom- plishment at least as great as any to the credit of " the plant......