22 DECEMBER 1944, page 14

Francis Yeats Brown

SIR,—The sudden death, after much sufferin g , of Francis Yeats Brown is a very real sorrow to those who worked with him on The Spectator staff from January, 1926, to March,......

Country Life

WHAT may be called an arbitration award, ar g ued out in the most scientific manner, has been published (in the Estates Magazine) in the battle that has been proceedin g , most......

An Avicultural Jubilee A G Ood Many Field Naturalists Feel A

certain hostility towards avicul- turists ; and it is, of course, true that the ca g in g of birds may be brutal, since birds are of the air, aerial. In Spain I have seen French......

A New Bird Species A Recent "bird - Letter " From Al G Eria

particularly interested me because it was lar g ely concerned with a species that may become a re g ular English visitor. It is, I am told, increasin g very rapidly in its more......

Sir,—" Janus " Writes In Your Issue Of December 15th,

" So far there is no evidence whatever that the patients as a whole, meaning the voters of the country, are in the least opposed to the National Health Insurance scheme." The......

In My Garden In Plantin G New Fruit Trees—pears, Plums And

cherries, not Iess than apples, it is necessary to follow such advice as is admirably boiled down in a little leaflet republished by the John banes Horticultural Institution......

Doctor And Patient

SIR,—It is the accepted practice in medicine that a new treatment is never adopted on laboratory evidence alone ; it is first put to ri g orously controlled clinical tests on a......