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A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



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



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T. H. NELSON, M.B.O.U. WILLIAM WEST, F.L.S. 



Contents of January Number. 



PAGES 



Notes and Comments (Illustrated): — Weardale Naturalists, Coast 



Erosion, Cost of Protecting the Coast, Lancashire Borings ... 1-3 



Weeds— A. H. Faivson,J.P., F.L.S.,F.G.S 4-14 



The Fossiliferous Drift Deposits at Kirmington, Lincolnshire— 



J. W. Stqther, F.G.S. 15-18 



Yorkshire Naturalists at Leeds— T. S 18-20 



Notes on Good King Henry— Arthur Betmett, F.L.S. ... 20-21 



Nature Study: Ideal and Real— T. S. 22-25 



Lincolnshire Fresh=water Mites (Illustrated) — G. F. George, 

 M.R.C.S 



Yorkshire Earthquakes— Charles Davison, Sc.D., F.G.S. 



Field Notes 



Reviews and Book Notices (Illustrated) 



Northern News 



Illustrations 



25-26 

 ... 26-28 



14, 21, 28 

 ■ • 2 9-3I 



2, 25, 29, 30, 31 



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