U.n.c.i.o. Postscript
SIR, —Mr. Francis Williams does not dispute that the text of the San Francisco Charter leaves the " hidden veto " unimpaired, but draws attention to the agreement announced by......
Delayed Hatching
Some accounts, that have strained the credulity of many naturalists, have appeared in The Times concerning the hatching of eggs, apparently deserted for weeks. My own......
Country Life
PEOPLE in Oxford are wondering why that delectable brook, the Cher, should be covered with duckweed, a plant not even noticed in ordinary. The stream in places looks like one of......
In My Garden
I do not know that wasps are particularly plentiful this season, but all there are in my neighbourhood seem to have discovered a tree of Langley pippins. They arc quite right. I......
Rare Birds In Number The Very Best Of Local Bird
reports comes yearly from the Devon Bird- watching and Preservation Society, and this year's is altogether exceptional. It reports an astonishing number of rarities to......
R.a.f. Education
Sta,—An Education Officer who tendered his resignation in accordance with the terms of his appointment received a reply from the Air Ministry informing him that under the......
The Service Vote
Slit,—I venture to send you the enclosed passage from a letter received from my son. He has been an aircraftsman in Egypt, mostly in Cairo, for over three years, and owing to......
The Rose - Bay Willow - He'rb Plant
I find it difficult to escape from that irrepressible plant the rose-bay willow-herb. One more or less new fact emerges. Its disappearance is on occasion as remarkable alniost......
Shortage Of Houses
SIR,—The present shortage of houses prompts me to the suggestion, possibly not novel, that many of the buildings on vacated aerodromes (of which the number must be on the......
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