_ No. 655 
(No. 433 of ourrent series). 
ie A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 
Notes and Comments:—The Sportophyte; Botanists at Play; Botanical Gleanings; An Inter- sehr 
national Phytogeographical Excursion ; Distinguished Foreign Visitors ; Routes The 
Isle of Wight; Banks’ Oar Fish (Illustrated) ; Monograph of Mollusca .., . 273-276 
Cock Partridges ‘ Mothering’ Chicks hatched in an Incubator—R. Fortune, F. zZ. Se oatta 277 
Petricola pholadiformis Lam.—Hans Schlesch ... bay is Py we oh EE Se 278 
The Bearded-Tit in-Holderness—W. H. St. Quintin, F.Z. er ie . 279-280 
_ Game Birds and their Broods killed by Lightning near Hiveogutec® Fovtuae Pie: Ss. 280 — 
_ The Birds of Walney Island—dA. Haigh Lumby.. aS in ue ie ee ... 281-282 
_ New and Rare Yorkshire Spiders (illustrated) Wm. Falewne ses tA ... 283-288. 
- Enchytraeids of the North of England—Rev. Hilderic Friend, F.L.S., FR. M. LS. ay ... 289-293 - 
_ Naturalists at Barton-on-Humber—T.°. ... bss ce as ae is ah ee -.. 294-295, 
Lincolnshire Chalk Foraminifera—C. S. Carter ... oh ih ws aL! ‘au a 302 
In Memoriam—John Morgan a ee an 3.2 ae, Be ae nee res aby 303 
me News: from: the WMapazinea) ir.) idl cos dks wh Coe Ma ele ae 293, 304 
Reviews and Book Notices 2.00.00 cee wets nee we 278, 288, 296, 303 
_ Northern News senh tennt i VetseiyTese yy ih leses/¥|".ca0)y ‘see We Mbaveliy Mase vase Wim age) sind edh MURNaty md iaR gE 
MCINECMETOTIS cs scot eet k, saute eke eet, EER ir ee ceo CO aie ele cites aia 
NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH a ENGLAND, 
EDITED BY or snian inst 
Wns 
T. SHEPPARD, F.G.S., F.R.G.S., F.S: A: ie 
THE Museums, Hutt ; AUG + 4 ti" q 
AND \ "i 
TECHNICAL CoLLEGE, HUDDERSFIELD. 
WITH THE ASSISTANCE AS REFEREES IN SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS OF 
J. GILBERT BAKER, F.R.S. F.L.S., GEO. T. PORRITT, F.L.S., F.E.S., 
Prof. P. F. KENDALL, M.Sc., F.G.S., JOHN W. TAYLOR, 
T. H. NELSON, M.B.O.U., WILLIAM WEST, F.L.S., 
RILEY FORTUNE, F.Z.S. 
Contents :— 
Field Notes:—Lincolnshire Boulders; The Chemistry of the Cuckoo-Flower (Cardamine 
pratensis) ; Salpingus eratus Muls.: an Addition to the County List ; Redshanks breeding 
at Spurn; Strange Accident toa Song Thrush; Decrease in Whinchats ; The Decrease 
in Landrails ; Bird Notes from the Scarborough District ; Large Trout and Carp; Eels 
Travelling on Land; Unio margaritifer in confinement ; A Method of Obtaining the 
Glochidia of Anodonta cygnea; Hydra vulgaris and the Tadpoles of Rana temporaria 
282, 295, 296, 297-301 
‘Plates XV., XVI. 
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