Nature Study
Round the Countryside—9
'The Story of the Coltsfoot'
RICHARD MORSE
This afternoon Mr. Richard Morse is to talk to you about the coltsfoot. A good many of our wild flowers are so inconspicuous that country folk have never even found names for them ; but the coltsfoot is not one of those. It has attracted so much attention over so many centuries that its familiar lames among country dwellers number it least forty. '
Many of these old names are full of interest. Thus tinder-leaf, poor-man's tobacco, cough-wort, one-o'clock, dummy-leaves, and son-before-the-father, all throw light upon the strange story of the coltsfoot. But apart altogether from the lore of the past, the coltsfoot is an interesting and successful plant, and Mr. Morse will describe various phases of its life history.
2.25 Interlude
2.30 Music
Junior Course-I, Lesson 5
' Introduction to Chromatic Notes '
ERNEST READ , F.R.A.M.
3.0 Interval
3.5 Early Stages in French
Lesson 9
J. Vigne
Assisted by E. R. MONTEIL
3.30 Interval
3.35 Talk for Sixth Forms
Recent Scientific Research:
' The Safety of Coal Miners'
K. NEVILLE MOSS ,
Professor of Mining in the University of Birmingham
3.55 Interval