HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



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is likely to prove their last (as, before they have been 

 kept some time, they have not any attachment to 

 their habitation), or some other calamity has over- 

 taken them. I used to find that my lizards, con- 

 trary to what might be supposed, object to the full 

 glare of the summer sun, and on very hot sunny 

 days keep in the shade. They would lap water 

 greedily, if they had been some days without it, 

 preferring it to milk. I gave them for a bed dry 

 grass, as they always objected to it when damp. 



A. Aldridge. 



SALLOW-BEATING. 



TT is in the month of April that the Sallow shows 

 -L its golden catkins, branches bearing which are 

 gathered, under the name " palms," by the childixn 

 in some parts of the country on the eve of the 

 Sunday next before Easter, or Palm Sunday, as it is 

 called, in commemoration of our Saviour's last and 

 triumphant entry into Jerusalem, when the people 

 went forth to meet him strewing branches of palm- 

 trees in the way. The appearance of these catkina 



Fig. 85. Marsh-fly {Dolichopus simplex), from an enlarged sketch by R. Connor, Esq. 



THE MARSH-FLY. 



{Dolichopus simplex.) 



AlTE give the following beautiful illustration 

 » ' of a common object, the Marsh-fly {Doli- 

 chopus simplex), on account of its being printed by a 

 new process called, after the discoverer, Dallastype. 

 We are not acquainted with the process, as it is, of 

 course, a secret. It is based on photography, and 

 therefore accurately represents the objects it deline- 

 ates, as fig, 85 shows. The drawing of the Marsh- 

 fly is from a pen-and-ink sketch by E.. Connor, Esq., 

 whose able pencil we purpose engaging on other 

 natural history subjects. 



is welcomed with delight by the naturalist, as they 

 usher in the mild and genial weather, in which he 

 can awake from an hibernal slumber to another year 

 of assiduous labour. 



The S:illow belongs to the Sallx orlWillow tribe, 

 and delights to grow where the soil is moist. It is 

 chiefly used in ,the manufacture of ^vicker-work 

 baskets, for which purpose the young [shoots are 

 lopped off every two or three years, so that it is 

 seldom allowed the chance of showing its natural 

 beauty in districts where thus treated. When 

 undisturbed, and growing in a favourable situation, 

 the Sallow will often attain an altitude of forty feet. 

 Those who have been amongst the palm-bushes 



