3 DECEMBER 1898, Page 14

THE SENSE OF DIRECTION IN ANIMALS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A friend of mine told, me some years ago that he had had some Scotch cattle conveyed direct by rail from Scotland to the south of the New Forest, where he turned them out to pasture in the Forest. Some time after, meeting one of the men whose duty it is to look after the cattle in the Forest, he asked after his animals. He was told that they had at once made their way to the extreme north of the Forest, and whenever they were driven back they always, without delay, turned their steps again northward.—I am, Sir, &c.,