Country Life
The number and variety of strange events in what is sometimes called " field observation " have accumulated to a formidable sum this January. The old diarists, a number of whom......
The Unneeded Roller.
One discovery, important perhaps to both bowlers and lawn-tennis players, has been made and established. It is the substitution of top-dressing for a heavy roller. The one......
The Search For " Indications Of Spring " Is More
than amusing. I am told, indirectly by a German professor, that one of the more fruitful sciences of the future is phenology. This quaint science, over which a number of......
A Sea-birds' Society.
In another department of natural history international co-operation is being encouraged. An ardent lover of birds is collecting a group of naturalists from this country and that......
Ringed Migrants.
Several letters have reached me, asking the same question. " What is to be done when a bird is found marked with a numbered ring ? Perhaps owing to sudden death from the gales,......
[sir William Beach Thomas Is Away For A Month, And
the usual " Country Life" page will, therefore, not appear in the issues of the SPECTATOR dated February 1st, 8th or 15th.—Ed. SPECTATOR.]......
Green-k.f.eping Research.
Great progress has been made by that quaintly entitled body, the " Board of Research for Golf Green Keeping." Its ideals and range are much wider than its name. The body was......
A New Jackdaw Of Rheims.
The following tale—part of it of the variety generally labelled tall—reaches me from an Oxfordshire Rectory. " We have had here a small edition of the Jackdaw of Rheims. A woman......
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