FEBRUARY 1909. 



No. 625 



(No. 403 of eurrtnt i*rl§$} 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



T. SHEPPARD, F.G.S., F.S.A.Scot., 



The Museum, Hull ; 



T. W. WOODHEAD, Ph.D. .F.L.S., 



Technical College, Huddersfield. 



with the assistance as referees in special departments of 

 J. aiLBERT BAKBR, F.R.S. F.L.S., GEO. T. PORRITF, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



Prof. P. F. KENDALL. M.Sc, F.Q.S., JOHN W. TAYLOR, 



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



RILEY FORTUNE, F.Z.S. 



Contents : — 



Notes and Comments (Illustrated) :— The Palaeontographical Society; The South Eastern 

 Naturalist; Hornets; Ray Society's Publications; British Marine Annelids, And their 

 Colours; A Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalists' Union ; Liverpool Geologists; Labels 

 showing Geographical Distribution 



The Gargeny breeding in East Yorkshire— IF. H. St. Quintin, F.Z.S 



The Rock-Soil Method and Ballota nigra Linn, in Lincolnshire— ^rr. E. Adrian 

 Woodruffc-Peacock, F.L.S. , F.G.S., etc. 



A Yorkshire Botanist— 7. S 



The Migratory Movements of certain Shore-Birds as observed on the Dublin Coast 

 —Prof. C.J. Patten, M.A., M.D., Sc.D. 



Wasps at West Ayton, Yorks.— i?cu. W. C. Hey 



The Changing Distribution of the Long>tailed Titmouse in the West Riding— Hni 

 B. Booth, M.B.O.U 



In Memoriam (Illustrated)— Joseph Lomas— /I 



Field Notes 



Some New Books— Geology 



Reviews and Book Notices (Illustrated) ... 



Northern News ... 



Illustrations 34,37, 



M.A. 



R. D'dferyyhouse, D.Sc, F.G.S. 



38, 44, 54 



57, 



3;)-37 



38. 



39-41 

 45-48. 



49-.52 

 53-54 



55-57 

 58-60 

 , 60-01 

 61-63 

 ,61-63 

 37,64 

 58,62 



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