How Birds Carry Seeds

Dr. Howard, the new secretary of the American Association for the Advancexnent of Science, writing of the manner tn which seeds are carried to great distances by birds, recited an experiment of Darwin which had a curious result. Adhering to the leg of a wounded partridge, Darwin found a ball of earth weighing six and a half ounces. From ♦he seeds contained in this ball he raised thirty-two plants belonging to i9ve distinct species.