5 NOVEMBER 1937, page 17

Country Life

A Cottage Census It is much to be hoped that everyone who can will help forward the new proposal for a survey of old or historic cottages. Some local surveys of the sort have......

* * * * Bird Poets

On the subject of birds and birds'- song, no poet in our day, perhaps in any day, has written so well as Ralph Hodgson ; and his total omission is one of the only faults I have......

The" Richmond Sanctuary ,the Activities Of Man In The...

"of London have proved singularly attractive to some of the very wildest birds. To take , a personal experience or two—I have watched plover, duck and snipe in many parts of the......

Autumn Sowing

The extreme mildness of this autumn, which permits us still to pluck rosebuds and already to enjoy the scent of viburnum fragrans, may persuade more people to trust seeds to the......

48 Cubs

The humanitarians, who make periodic complaints about the dates for the close seasons, have perhaps some grounds against those packs of foxhounds which begin cub-hunting in late......

A Triumph Of Photography

Co-operation between a great German naturalist, Rudolf Zimmermann of Dresden, and an English, Miss Barclay Smith, has produced the most beautiful series of photographs of birds,......

London Birds Many Of Our Naturalists, Not Least W. H.

Hudson, have wondered at the number of birds In London. In the very latest book of birds thanks are 'offered to H.M. Board of Works for special facilities given to listeners to......