DECEMBER 1909. 



No. 635 



(Na. 413 tf turrtnt aeries). 



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. QILBERT BAKER. F.R.S. F.L.S., QEO. T. PORRITT, P.L.S., F.E.S., 



Prof. P. P. 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 : — 



Notea and Comments :— The late Dr. W. H. Dallinger, F.R.S. ; A Climbing Snapdragon; 

 The Bielsbeck Deposit ; Migration of Terns, etc. 



The Disappearance of the Plaice— Pw/. W. Garstang, M.A.,D.Sc 



The Study of a Fircone (Illustrated)— Jl/rs. E. Hughes Gibb 



Qenera and Species in Fungi— M. C. Cooke, LL.D., M.A., A.L.S., V.M.H., etc. 



Fungus Foray at Castle Howard— C. Crossland, F.L.S "ip.. 



Some British Earthmites rroni6/<///(fa; (Illustrated)— C. F: George, M.R.C.S 



The Annelid Fauna of Worcestershire— /fru. Hilderic Friend 



The Chemistry of some Common Plants— P. Q. Keegan, LL.D 



On the Geographical Distribution of MoUusca in South Lonsdale— iJev. C. E. Y. Kendall, 

 B.A., J. Davy Dean, and W. Munn Rankin, M.Sc, B.Sc 



Notes on East Riding Spiders in 1909 — E. A. Parsons and T. Stainforth 



Field Notes 



Reviews and Book Notices 407,411,422,424, 



Northern News 



Proceedings of Provincial Scientific Societies 



News from the Magazines 



Illustrations 



Plate XVIII. 



Title=page, List of Plates, List of Contributors, and Index to this Volume. 



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441-443 



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443, 446 



447 



402, 448 



408,410 



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