26 APRIL 1913, Page 33

THE EARLY SPRING.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEcreros."] SIR,—Perhaps some of your readers may be interested to- knaw that a full-sized bat was flying about this house on the evening of Saturday, April 19th. Gilbert White says, "Bats appear at all seasons through the autumn and spring months, when the thermometer is at fifty, because then phalamm and moths are stirring." The thermometer was forty-five when I