3 JANUARY 1941, page 18

Swans

As if to supplement my remarks of last week, a magnificent flight of six swans has passed over while these notes were being written. One thing about them (apart from the fact,......

Friend Or Enemy ?

The real purpose of the pamphlet is, however, to decide whether or not the starling is an agricultural pest. Here, again, conclusive results can only be obtained by exhaustive......

Peziza Coccinea

Six,—Letters gratefully received from some of your readers, as well as Mr. Page's disclosure of his beneficent intention, shows that this exquisite little fungus, though shy and......

The Jules Verne Age

SIR,—May I reply to a number of criticisms of my book on Jules Verne by your reviewer, Mr. Geoffrey Grigson? The review was on the whole intended to be complimentary, but I am......

Vegetable Surplus

It is a very deplorable thing to read that huge quantities of surplus green vegetables are being taken back from Covent Garden to the farms, and there fed to cattle: yet here,......

Country Life

Starlings : Increase or Decrease ? My recent remarks on the possible decrease in the population of starlings has brought me an extremely interesting pamphlet reprinted by Miss......

Free Trade Or Protection Sta,—in Your Issue Of December 27th

Mr. George Peel . certainly clarifies the issue by explaining that when he quoted figures showing a decline in our exports and referred to the policy of Protection he did not......