The Work Of Nature In The Months.

enough of light left to see the movements of that most accomplished diver the Pochard , Bed-headed Poker , or Dun Bird ; its ruddy chesnut head separated from the pencilled body by a A'olvety band of black , makes it a conspicuous object amongst the rest of the cluck family . The la t

migratory bird that wo must stay to notice is the pretty little Widgeon , ivith its warm chesnut cheeks and neck , reddish breast , handsomely marked body , green-streaked . Avings , and yellow crest . This beautiful little duck ishowevermuch less frequently

, , seen on the water than on the table , which fact reminds us that it is getting late , and that there is rising round us that accompaniment , the fog , which renders November so damp and dismal , and makes us coincide with the poet ' s

lament" The melancholy days are come , the saddest of the year , Of wailing winds , and naked woods , and meadows brown aud sere . Heaped in the hollows of the grove the withered leaves lie dead : They rustle to the eddying gust and to the rabbits' tread

" AVhere are the thnvers , the fiur young flowers , that lately sprung aud stood In brighter light ancl softer airs , a beauteous sisterhood ) Alas ! they all are in their graves ! the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly bed with the fair and good of ours .

The rain is falling where they lie ; but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again . " Yot , once more , let us not lose heart ,

for"Nature in Springs best charms Shall rise revived from Winter ' s grave , Expand the bursting bud again , And bid the flower re-bloom . "

Civil And Mechanical Engineers' Society.

CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS' SOCIETY .

VISIT TO LLOYD ' PAPER MILLS , BOW . 7 , Westminster Chambers , Victoria St ., S . W THE society during the Autumn recess has visited the folloAving interesting Avorks : — Truman Hanbury & Co ., BreAvery , —Richmond Water Works—New LaAv Courts

South Metropolitan Gas Works , and Lloyd ' s Paper Mills . The visits to Works supplement the Annual reading of papers on Engineering and Scientific subjects during tho Winter Session , aud form instructive and social gathering for the

members and their friends . On tho last of these visits to Lloyd ' s Paper Manufactory , on the 22 nd ult . there ivas a numerous assembly , and the kind manner in ivhich they Avere received , and the very lucid description given of the Avhole process of

paper manufacturing fully recouped tho visitors for their attendance . Owing to a previous engagement , Mr . Frank Lloyd Avas unable to guide the Company through the A'arious departments of the establishment hut appointed Mr . C . Waite , his

Foreman , ivho took considerable pains to explain both Verbally and mechanically the manufacture throughout , from the delivery of the English and Belgian straw , Esparto Grass , palm-leaves and waste paperfrom the wharf on to the premises

, , cutting up the vegetable matter aud separating aH knotty substances from it , being unfitted for paper making , sorting the paper—fitting the revolving boilers with the various materials ancl the

necessary quantity of caustic soda , emptying the boilers and converting the straw , & c , into pulp , bleaching it with chloride of lime and finally passing it as pulp in at one end of the machine ; i : il seeing it come out at the other paper such as is used for our various daily and Aveekly journals .

The works find employment for 180 men , Avomeu and boys . The mechanical power is supplied by 5 boilers to 10 engines of 300 horse poiver collectively , and the quantity of paper manufactured Aveekly at this establishment alone is 42 tonsthe

, proprietor having other mills at Sittingbourne . The company also inspected the tivo presses used for printing the Sunday Edition of Lloyd ' s newspaper , each press being capable of printing 20 , 000 copies per hour . The total circulation of the

paper being over 600 , 000 weekly . Amongst the visitors and friends present , AA'e noticed the President , Bro . R . M . f ancroft of the Great Northern Raihvay , E . Perrett and A . Payne , Members of Council , W . C . Street , Hon . Treasurer , & c . The company Avere upwards of 2 ^ hours inspecting the works , and upon leaving ,