BIBLE NATURAL HISTORY.
[TO THE EDITOE OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE,—The interesting article in the Spectator of June 10th and the collection at South Kensington should stimulate in- terest in the study of Bible natural history. I remember, when on a visit to California some years ago, looking through a costly and very beautifully illustrated work published by a well-known American house. In the wide margins were small drawings, finely executed, intended to illustrate passages in the text. Opposite the well-known lines from the "Song of Songs"-- "Iliems transiit, imber ablit et recessit. . . . Vox tctrtnria audits eat in terra maitre. . . . Surge, arnica rues, et veni was one of a huge Tourorss, with neck elongated, head erected, and mouth open, emerging from some kind of tropical
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