SPECIAL SPRING NUMBER. 



ONE SHILLINQ NET. 



MARCH 1909. 



No. 626 



(Na. 404 of eurrtnt fritt} 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



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



The Museum, Hull; 



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



Technical College, Huddersfield. 



Contents : — 



PAGES 



Notes and Comments (Illustrated) :— Large Larch Saw-fly in the Lake District ; A 

 Poisonous Fungus; The Food of Birds, A Thousand Chester Records ; New Botanical 

 Finds ; New Spiders ; Derbyshire Glaciers, A Geographical Observation, Glaciers and 

 Place-Nanies ; The National Trust ; How to tell the Birds from the Flowers — The Crow, 

 The Crocus ; Animal Analogues — The Bee, the Beet, The Beetle, Ants and Pheasants ... G5-70 



Notes on Bats (Illustrated^— .4 rZ/jur Whitaker 71-77 



Paucity of Redwings in the West RiA\ng—H arry B. Booth, M.B.O.U 78-79 



Euplirasias of North=east Yorkshire—/. G. Baker, F.R.S 19 



The Hornet in Yorkshire— AVt. IK. C. ifo, 1/^ 80 



Fossil Plants from the Marske and Upleatham Quarries, Yorkshire— i^ut'. George J. 



Lane, F.G.S., and T. W. Saunders 81-82 



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



— C.J. Patten, M. A., M.D.,Sc.D 83-86 



Some British Earthmites (Illustrated)— C. F. George ... 87-88 



Two Ancient Burial Cairns on Brimham Moor, Yorkshire— A . Leslie Armstto7ig I'.. A. S.l. 89-92 



Some Lincolnshire Boulders— F. A/. Bi/i/on, F.G.S., 7'^L.S 93-9(> 



The Oxford British Plant List— G.C/fl/irffre £>)-«<:«, A/.^.,F./,.S 97-99 



Mditional Note— I'. Arnold Lees, M.R.C.S 99-100 



The Sycamore— P.O. Kcegan, LL.D 101-105 



Freshwater Rhizopods from the Sheffield District— James B. Brown, P>.Sc 105-108 



Beetles of Lancashire and Cheshire— F. G- Bnv/or^f, F.F.S. 108110 



Field Notes (Illustrated) lU-lU 



The Phytoplankton of the English Lake District (Illustrated;— II'i;!. West, F.L.S., and 



G. .S. West, M.A.,D.Sc.,F.L.S 115-152 



In Memoriam (illustrated)— Wilfred H. Hudleston, F.R.S, F.Q.S., etc.— 7 . S 123-12< 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union Meetings ' ■.,. • 125-1'2(» 



Reviews and Book Notices 77, 80, 86, 9?,'0O, 100, 110, 11^, 124, 12G-127 



Northern News 79 88,124 



illustrations ^^^.^Mr^, lli 



Plates i., II., III., IV,, v., VI., VII., VIM. v'<Ci\9^^-''^ 



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