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NATURE NOTES. 
for elementary schools. Four of them, with or without the 
accompanying letterpress, would go well together in a plain oak 
frame ; the cost of thus preparing them would be extremely 
small, and they could be transferred from time to time from one 
room to another, thus causing that variety and renewal of 
interest which we think is sometimes too much overlooked by 
those who have charge of our schools. 
By the kindness of the publishers we are enabled to give a 
specimen (much reduced) of the illustrations ; the following, 
which will serve as an example of the letterpress, we select 
because of the interesting information it contains, although we 
demur to the name proposed for the animal. 
“ Thk British Kangaroo.” 
“Bennett’s Wallaliy is named after Mr. Bennett, one of the early Australian 
naturalists. We have called it the British kangaroo, because in several parks in 
this country it is now almost as thoroughly acclimatised as the rabbit ; tbc two best 
known instances are at llaggerston Castle, in Northumlrci land, owned by Mr. 
Naylor Leyland, and in .Sir K. G. Coder’s park at Leonardslee, near Horsham, in 
.Sussex. There the Wallabies, old and young, lie about and sun themselves like 
small deer. Nothing could be more surprising or unexpected than this thoroughly 
Australian scene under the oaks and beeches in an English park. They are out in 
the open all the winter. When disturbed they rush oft' just as rabbits do, going 
very fast, with long and graceful bounds, and then stopping to see if they are 
followed. The fur of many of the Wallabies is very .soft and warm, and ought to 
make cheap and handsome rugs and linings for coats. But at ))resent they arc 
killed in great numbers for their hides only, which are sold in England to make 
patent leather boots. There are kangaroos of all sizes, some being no larger than 
rabbits. A tree kangaroo is now in the Zoo.” 
