THE NATURE DIARY 253 
records be that in any subsequent season you may 
look back upon your notes of any particular year, 
and make comparisons. In course of time you will 
be able to compile a Nature Calendar from your 
notes ; you can show what birds, insects, flowers, 
etc., are likely to be in evidence month by month. 
Mr. Percival Westell has published, through the 
Educational Company of Ireland, a Nature Diary, in 
which columns are arranged for weather, tempera- 
ture, birds, insects, trees and hedges, wild flowers, 
pond-life, farm and crops, garden and general notes. 
Blank forms for monthly weather-charts are also 
provided. This is a very useful Diary, and only 
costs sixpence. Of course, anyone can rule a blank 
notebook and arrange a diary on systematic lines, 
but Mr. Westell’s Diary makes provision for all 
necessary records, and costs little more than a 
blank book. 
Now I bid adieux to my readers. My space is 
already exceeded, yet I feel there is so much to be 
said that I have not said. Perhaps 1 may be 
encouraged to say just a little more in another 
volume. I hope my young friends will become 
thorough naturalists, and find in the reverent study 
of Nature the solace and delight that I have dis- 
covered. As Emerson wrote : 
‘* All my hurts 
My garden spade can heal. A woodland walk, 
A quest of river-grapes, a mocking thrush, 
A wild-rose or rock-loving columbine, 
Salve my worst wounds.” 
