4 MAY 1951, page 14

Disappointed Jackdaws Two Of Our Jackdaws Here Have Had A

week of disappointment ; they have been making a thorough nuisance of themselves by carrying nesting material into the porch of the parish church. Just beneath the tiles of the......

The Bristly Millipede Some Of The Loveliest Things In The

country are the smallest, and among the most diminutive of the creatures visible to the naked eye I commend to notice a great friend of mine, Polyxemis lagurus, the bristly......

In The Garden I Tm The Fortunate Possessor Of A

fine example of the blue spruce, Picea pungens. It had a troubled childhood, for after being raised in a Kentish nursery, it served, in 1928.. as a tiny Christmas-tree at......

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Art On The South Bank

FIRST reflections on the South Bank Exhibition suggest that it is the architects' and designers' show. The work of the artists is, I think, uneven and often disappointing. The......

"mbe Oppectator," Aril) 3rb, 1851

- hit ceremonial of opening the Exhibition was simple, but judiciously conceived, and eminently successful. The rout ensemble of the edifice was striking and beautiful. It was......

Country Life

THE human memory plays us queer pranks, and without notes it is a little dangerous to speak confidently about changed relationships in the bird-population. Nevertheless I feel......