Country Life
I sea that the British Trust for Ornithology is asking—from the Earl Grey Institute at Oxford—for old game books. Estate books would perhaps give more zoological information......
Doctors' Holidays
SIR,—I have seen several letters in the Spectator on the subject of this doctors' dilemma, the National Health Service Bill, but on one point I have, so far, failed to see any......
By-elections
Snt,—Labour's good fortune in by-elections is still being maintained, says Janus. The facts do not bear him out. At Sowerby, South Ham- mersmith and North St. Pancras, Labour is......
In The Garden Garden Catalogues—and, Indeed,...
rule remarkable for individuality. The reason doubtless is that the bulk of gardeners seek the same things. If they want exceptional plants they want the latest novelty which,......
Intimidation In Eritrea
SIR, -I must apologise for an unaccountable slip in my letter which you were kind enough to publish last week. The District Chief of Meraguz who was present at the assault upon......
Central - Heated Roosts
A quaint but most plausible reason, founded, on direct observation, is given for the preference of London sparrows for particular trees as nightly roosts. They like, it seems,......
Britons Pakistan
Sta,—In my letter to you on this subject I failed, through an oversight, to mention that the three ladies who are doing such splendid work in Tank, are missionaries of the......
Urban Duck
It seems that the unhappy wild duck who seek sanctuary on the lake of St. James's Park are shot from time to time as unwelcome visitors by the urban, it would seem very urban,......
A Barbaric Custom
SIR,—No one who has lived in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan can fail to agree with the grave strictures recently passed upon the horrible practice of female circumcision customary in......
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