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THE GUIDE TO NATURE— ADVERTISEMENTS 



How TO Know the Mosses. A Popular Guide 

 to the Mosses of 'the Northeastern 

 United States. By Elizabeth Marie 

 Dunham. Boston and New York. 

 Houghton Mifflin Company. 

 The subject of this book is treated in a 

 simple, non-technical way so that with some 

 species considerable may be learned without 

 the use of the lens. But with the generality 

 of the mosses not much serious study can 

 be done without the pretty constant use of 

 a pocket lens or, better still, the compound 

 microscope. Yet this book simplifies the 

 subject so that the lover of nature may 

 acquire at least a passing acquaintance with 

 these beautiful plants. The author calls at- 

 tention to their wide distribution. They are 

 found in all sorts of places except in salt 

 water. 



"They grow on moist and on dry ground; 

 on bare rocks and ledges and on those that 

 are covered with soil; on trees; on decaying 

 wood, such as old logs and stumps; on old 

 roofs; and even in streams and ponds and 

 in places that are sometimes submerged. 

 They are especially abundant in cool, moist 

 woods and luxuriant swamps where old logs 

 are rotting, but many may be found in drier 

 and more open places, such as old fields and 

 meadows, and even along the roadside." 



Dogs for the South Pole. 



In his recent lecture in Exeter on 

 Captain Scott's expedition ]\Ir. C. H. 

 Aleares mentioned that in his forthcoming- 

 expedition Sir Ernest Shackleton would 

 take a 'number of dogs which had been 

 used for hauling in Canada. The animals, 

 numbering ninety-nine, arrived in Lon- 

 don on Tuesday week and will leave 

 again on the Endurance next Wednesda}-. 

 They are all half-breeds, their ancestry 

 being represented by wolves, and have 

 been used for sleighing and hauling fish. 

 Fish has been their chief food, but in 

 view of the special work for which they 

 are destined they have been trained to 

 feed on biscuits — quite a new form of 

 sustenance to them until they left Mon- 

 treal for London, but so acceptable that 

 they consumed i8cwt. of Spratt's meat 

 fibrine dog cakes by the time they arrived, 

 and are now confirmed biscuit eaters. 

 That they should have taken so readily 

 to their new food is fortunate, for more 

 depends on this than may be imagined. 

 Captain Scott admitted that his failure 

 to reach the Pole on his 1901 expedition 

 was due to the fact that he substituted 

 stockfish for biscuits as food for the dogs 

 which accompanied him on his final dash. 

 Sir Ernest Shackleton will rely on 

 Spratt's Dog Cakes for his teams" food, 

 and a sufficient supply is being taken on 



board the Endurance to last throughout 

 the expedition. The dogs, who are now 

 at Spratt's c^uarantine kennel at Bedding- 

 ton, answer promptly to their names — 

 Blackey, Collar, Xoble ,Xero, Captain, 

 Colonel, Chimo, etc. The ages range 

 from one to six years ; eighty of them are 

 unusually large, the remainder being 

 younger and somewhat smaller. In many 

 of them the features of the St. Bernard, 

 Newfoundland and German wolfhound 

 are very pronounced. "Fox" is perhaps 

 the prettiest of the pack, remarkably 

 clever and well trained and one of the 

 team leaders, although but a year old. 

 Light, an all gray dog of the prairie wolf 

 type, is another of the team leaders, being 

 the champion of them all, the best worker 

 and the fiercest fisliter. 



Chrysanthemums. 



Chrysanthemums, glorified daisies. 

 Who fitly can render your praises? 



You come at a season when blossoms are 



few. 

 When Garden-flower homage is given to 

 you, 

 In all of your wonderful phases. 



— Emma Peirce. 



The eighteenth volume of 



Bird-Lore 



begins February 1, 1916. 



Volume I contained 206 pages and 

 no colored plates ; Volume XVII 

 contained 560 pages and eleven 

 colored plates. 



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