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    • Fireballs - Nature

      Nature· 1 day ago

      Last year, in July, I was residing on Naphill Common, Buckinghamshire. About midday, during my absence at Oxford, a violent thunderstorm broke over the district, and appeared to extend from ...

    • North American Frogs and Toads - Nature

      Nature· 1 day ago

      THE life histories of North American frogs and toads form the subject of a memoir entitled “North American Anura—Life histories of the Anura of Ithaca, New York,” by Mr. A. H. Wright, just received ...

    • Afforestation in the British Isles - Nature

      Nature· 1 day ago

      THE question of extending the woods of the United Kingdom has recently been brought forward in the press, and questions have been asked in Parliament as to the willingness of Government to assist ...

    • Societies and Academies - Nature

      Nature· 1 day ago

      Linnean Society, November 3.—W. Carruthers, F.R.S., President, in the chair.—Mr. J. H. Hart, of Trinidad, was elected a Fellow of the Society.—The President called attention to the death-roll ...

    • Timber, and Some of its Diseases - Nature

      Nature· 1 day ago

      Radiating from the pith towards the periphery are cracks, the number, and length, and breadth of which may vary according to the time the log has been exposed to the weather, and other circumstances ...

    • Pheasants for Coverts and Aviaries - Nature

      Nature· 1 day ago

      ANY work on animals which appeals to so many different human weaknesses as the Pheasants, must be popular if the least effort has been made to do the subject justice. It is by the hand of an ...