17 AUGUST 1895, page 14

The Virtue Of Initials.

T HE Queen has recently rewarded the heroes of Chitral with various grades of honour, and to one man has fallen the coveted Victoria Cross ; Surgeon-Major Whit- church's name......

A New Sport.

M MAREY, in his greatest work, the " Vol des Oiseaux," • analysed the movements of the beating wing by an ingenious instrument which he called the photographic gun. In it was a......