JUNE 1909. 



No. 629 



(No. 407 0/ eurrtnt series). 



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. 



with the assistance as referees in special departments of 

 J. QJLBERT BAKER, F.R.S. F.L.S., GEO. T. PORRITF, P.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 tlllustrated) :— The Flamborough Peregrines; Swings; Tlie Girls' 

 Realm Extended; Eggs as Tops; The Descent of Darwin; The British Association 

 Report; The Solitary Ant; A Primitive Dreadnought 



Osprey in Yorkshire— IF. H. Sf. Qttintin, F.Z.S. , etc 



in Memoriam (Illustrated)— William Croser Hey— r. S 



The Ammonites called A. serpentiaus (Illustrated)— C. Thompson, B.Sc. (Loud.) 



Recently Discovered Fungi in Yorkshire— C. C>-os5/rt«rf, F.L.S 



News from the Magazines 



Sermons in Stones— T. S. 



Some New Books on Evolution 



The Present State of Our Knowledge of Carboniferous Geology— Dn Wheelion 

 F.R.C.S.,F.G.S 



Yorkshire Naturalists at Market Weighton (Illustrated) 



Field Notes (Illustrated) 



Polymorphism in Fungi.dllustrated)- G. Massee, V.M.H., etc. 



Museum News 



Reviews and Book Notices 



Northern News 



Illustrations 



Plates XII,, XIII., XIV., XV. 



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209, 211, 21c, 232, 



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