MARCH 1910. 



No. 638 



(No, 41c of eurront teries). 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



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



The Museums, Hull; 



AND 



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



Tkchnical Collegf, Huddersfield. 



with the assistance as referees in special departments"of 

 J. aiLBBRT BAKBR, F.R.S. F.L.S., QEO. T. PORRITF, F.L.S., F.E.S., 



Prof. P. F. KENDALL, M.Sc, F.O.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):— Geological Survey Maps ; Cave Remains from Warton 

 Crag ; A ' Faked ' Fossil Fish ; Liassic Plesiosaurs ; ' Snakestoiies ' ; Yorkshire 

 Ornithology; A Famous Whale ; New Lincolnshire Belemnites 



Some Avicultural Notes— II'. //. Si. ()Mtn/in, /.P., F.^.S.,e/c. 



The Yorkshire Species of Leuc^ra—Gio. T. Pom7/, F.L.S.,F.E.S 



Note on the Larva of Ottoaia coaifera (Illustrated)— C. F. G«oigc, M.R.C.S 



The Peat Moors of Lonsdale— An Introduction (Illustrated) — H'. Minin Rankin, M .Sc.{Lcc(lsi, 

 IS. Sc. {Lend.] 



Wind-formed Snowballs at Harrogate — A. Leslie Armstiong, P.A.I.S 



Notes on the Effects of Heath Fires on yegetation— H . F. Parson.', M .D., F.G.^'. 



Botanical Notes on a Bradford Waste Heap— John dyer 



Rare Fishes on the Yorkshire Coast (Illustrated)— IF./. C/niftf, F.Z.S 



Helleborlne atro-rubens Druce, var. Crowtheri, nov. var.— G. Clatidge Driicc, M.A ., F.I.. 



Note on Helleborlne atro-rubens, var. Crowtheri — F.Arnold Lees, M.R.C.S 



Field Notes (Illustrated) 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Vnioa—H. B.B 



Reviews and Book Notices 



Northern News 123.125, 



Illustrations 100, 107, 108. JL18, 



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