5 JANUARY 1929, Page 24

THE BIBLE AND NATURAL HISTORY.

I see in the isiueof December 22nd that Sir W. Beach Thomas quotes the beautiful passages from the Old Testament :-

" As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, warmeth them in her wings, so the Lord, &e."

• and says the author is Ezekiel.

But it was Moses who said this, as it is to be found in Deuter- onomy xxxii., 11. It may be quoted by Ezekiel, but I think not. With regard to the natural history question of whether, birds carry their young, Moses who had been many years a shepherd in Midian probably had had experience of what he- writes.—GEORGE M. COOK, Beaconha ,Martte, Aberdeenshire.