7 DECEMBER 1945, page 15

Flourishing Aliens The Absence Of Game-preservation, Or...

of artificial rearing, has indicated more certainly than ever before which birds are by nature, if not historically, native. Above the rest, pheasants have flourished alto-......

Back To The Colleges

have read with great interest your articles "Back to the Colleges" and "Army to Oxford." Now, at the risk of running this topic to death, I offer what is, I hope, a fair......

Sir,—permit Me To Inform Mr. L. Mcn. Shelford That As

far back as 1880 houses were being erected at Folkestone by the score fitted with bathrooms and electric bells. Similar conditions prevailed at Bourne- mouth, Eastbourne, and......

Country Life

THERE is perhaps no bit of water in the South, not even the Tring reservoirs, which is so well and fondly known as the Frensham Pond, the eighty acres of it. Early in the war it......

High Fliers The Wild Birds, Shot In Sucli Great Numbers

almost up to the confines of Greater London, have one point of inferiority to the artificially bred birds. They are less willing fliers. Few species of bird are so fond of......

Next To 'godliness Snt,—in Each Of The Several Bathrooms In

this house there is an effigy of the Duke of Wellington—patron saint of the tub. I have always understood that the Duke it was who introduced from India the fashion of the daily......

Is Jewry A Nation?

Sta,—It shows the length of assumption to which those have to go who maintain that the Jews are a nation that Mr. Israel Cohen has to ascribe the racial differences between the......

In My Garden

An eminent plant-breeder (interested in certain English "creations ") writes to suggest that Britain should imitate his country of Holland in protecting plant-breeders' rights.......

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