THE NATURALIST. 



A Monthly Journal of Natural History for the North of England. 



Edited by 



THOMAS SHEPPARD, F.G.S., and T. W. WOODHEAD, F.L.S. 



Price 6d. Monthly, or 5s. per Annum if paid in advance to 

 the Editors, at the Museum, Hull. 



The New Volume commences January 1st. 



Amongst the Contents of the 1903 Volume are the following- 

 papers of particular interest to East Yorkshire readers :— 

 ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 



Botanical Survey for Local Naturalists' Societies ; Dr. W. G. Smith. -York- 

 shire Glacier Lakes.— The Modem Method ot Studying Agarics ; G. Massee 

 F L S V.M H., &c— Holdemess Birds ; T. Petch, B.Sc, B.A.— Economic 

 Fungi! J. H. Holland, F.L.S.— New Freshwater Mites; C. F. George 

 M RC.S.— Christmas Afternoon's Fungus Ramble; W. N. Cheesman.— 

 Beavers in East Yorkshire ; Thomas Sheppard, F.G.S -Equipment ot the 

 Field Naturalist ; Rev. A. Thomley, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. Bibliography, 

 Geology, and Palaeontology, 1900 and 1901 ; T. Sheppard, KL..S.— Some 

 Points in the Biology of the Hepatic* ; F. Cavers, BSc -Lincolnshire 

 Galls ; Rev. E. A. W. Peacock and Miss S. C. Stow.— \orkshire Natura- 

 lists at Cowthorpe, Filey, Goathland, Bowes, Wharncliffe, and Helmsley. 

 — Pre-historic Jet Ornaments from East Yorkshire ; J. R. Mortimer.— 

 Hull's Contribution to Science; T. Sheppard, F.G.S.— The Chemistry ot 

 some Common Plants; P. Q. Keegan, LL.D.-Pied Flycatcher in York- 

 shire ; J. Braim.— Diatoms near North Cave ; R. H. Philip.-Observat.ons 

 on Rooks; Juliet V. Blackburn.- North of England Pseudoscorpions ; 

 H Wallis Kew, F.Z.S.- An Oolitic Plant Bed in North Cleveland ; Rev. 

 J Hawell, M.A., F.G.S.— Raven's Nest on Louth Steeple in 1693; C. S. 

 Carter, M.C.S.— Notes on Yorkshire Bryophytes ; F. Carvers, B.Sc— 

 Some Holdemess Myxomycetes ; T. Petch, B.Sc, B. A.-Sna.ls and Spiders 

 on Towers ; H. Wallis Kew.— Shore-Collecting near Scarborough and 

 Filey • Rev W. C. Hey.— River Flies as the Food of the Pied Flycatcher; 

 Miss M. L. Armitt.— Marine Zoology at Filey ; T. Petch, B.Sc., B.A.— 

 Notes on the Vegetation of Ponds [at Filey]; Dr. W. G. Smith.— \ ork- 

 shire Coleoptera in 1902, &c. 



Amongst the Short Notes are : — 

 ■ Cottineham Churchwardens' Accounts.— Gamekeeper's Hoard at Kirk Smeaton. 

 —Fork-tailed Petrel at Grimsby.— Little Bustard at Kilnsea.— W lute s 

 Thrush in Yorkshire. — Moles and their Fortresses.— Ringing Bees.— 

 Albino Birds in Yorkshire.— The Birds of Yorkshire. — Diatoms near 

 Grimsby.— Nature Study. -Beetles and Electric Light.— A Scarborough 

 " Naturalist."— Seal at Ulrome.-- Scottish Rocks in East Yorkshire. - 

 Birds of Bempton Cliffs. -Relics of the Stone Age.— An East Yorkshire 

 Erratic- Bos primigenius in Holdemess.— Coast Erosion.— British Bronze 

 Axes.— Great Spotted Woodpecker near Spurn.— Hepatics new to York- 

 shire.— Mammoth's Tusk at Brough.— Pike at the Hempholme Lock.— A 

 New Yorkshire Fossil.— Ancient Earthworks.— Woodchat Shrike at Spee- 

 ton.— Lepidoptera near Selby.— Beluga at Scarborough.— AlbinoHedgehog 

 and Mole.— An Early Scandinavian Relic— Pre-historic Bone Disease.— 

 In Memory of Samuel Chadwick.— The Yorkshire Chalk. — Snails on 

 Bridlington Priory Tower.— Pigmy Flints.— Partridge Motherhood.— Early 

 Burials in East Yorkshire.— Diatoms at Filey Brig, &c 



The Articles are illustrated by numerous plates and illustra- 

 tions in the text. 



