Mysterious Arrivals

Not only fish make their unaccountable appearance in pools and brooks which were just now dry land. I built a shallow concrete pond some two yards in diameter and planted a......

Eritrea And Abyssinia

Stn,—Suggestions have appeared in your columns and elsewhere that the hill country of the late Italian colony of Eritrea should be transferred to the Sudan, and that only the......

Consumers' Committees Sir, May I Refer To The Interesting...

from Mr. W. E. Simnett to your issue dated September 21st? This Council, which represents some 70,000 independent shopkeepers and traders (that is, the smaller type of shop),......

Country Life

NO one has put more effectual energy into the means of reviving - food production in Europe than Sir John Russell, just now the DireCtor of Rothamsted. Everyone will regret that......

A National Park I Happen To Have Walked Over, During

the late summer, a good part of that adorable district in Cumberland which is now offered as a National Forest Park, so-called. It always was a national park in essence. On my......

South Tyrol

Sin,—I am very glad to see that, in your current issue, you say " Un- questionably South Tyrol should be restored to Austria." As one who has visited the South Tyrol, better......

Why Hornets ?

Can any wise entomologist explain (t) Why hornets should be more numerous than in any year within memory and wasps fewer? You would think that the same conditions would help or......

In My Garden What A Blessed Race Is The Cotoneaster!

If you have a Simonsii to stand upright and a Horizontalis to lie down you will never miss winter berries. The birds seem less fond of them than of the very similar Pyracanthus,......

The Attributes Of Scientists . •

Stn,—Mr. Hampson's answer to my first question (" Which attributes? ") is a stream of unqualified reviling no more worthy of our respect than the infamous pronouncement which......

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