APRIL 1910. 



SPECIAL SPRING NUMBER. 



O NE SHILLINa NE T, 



No. 639 



(No. 417 0/ eurrint terlea). 



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 ; 



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



Technical College, Huddersfield, 



with the assistance as referees in special departments of 

 J. QILBBRT BAKBR, F.R.S. F.L.S., GEO. T. PORRITT, F.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 



and 



Notes and Comments (Illustrated) : — British Oaks — Quercus sessilijiora, Qutrcus Robn 



Quercus Roburxsessilijlora; Fossil Lemmings ; A Museum for Doncaster 



Note on a Meadow Pipit's Nest containins: two Eggs of the Cuckoo (Illustrated) — 



C. T. Trechtnann 



Asteracanthus in tiie Yorkshire Cornbrash (Illustrated) — Henry Charles Drake. F.G.S. ... 

 Rare Neolithic Implements from East Yorkshire (Illustrated)— 7'. S/!e/'/>n)rf, F.G.S., f/c. 



Snakestones (Illustrated) — G. C. Crick, F.G.S. , etc. 



Mycetozoa of the Scarborough District — A. Hibbcrt-Ware and C.Crossland 



The Diatoms of the Sedbergh District— A Study in Evolution (Illustrated)— i?.//. Philip 

 The Peat Moors of Lonsdale — An Introduction (Illustrated) — W. Munn Rankin, M.Sc.(Lecds) 



B.Sc.iLond.) 



Some Avicultural Notes— IF. //.S^ (3i/m/(n,/.P.,F.Z.S.,e/f 



Fault Revelations through the agency of underground water near Hawes, Wens= 



leydale (Illustrated)— G. r. AifAnj, B.Sf 



The Annelid Fauna of Worcestershire — Rev. Hildcric Friend 



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



In Memoriam : Edward Saunders, F.R.S 



Field Notes 144, 176, 



Some British Earthmites— /?Ay/ic/io/op/i/(/a; (Illustrated)— CF. G^oc^^, M .R.C^S^^,.^,^^^ — 



Northern News ^!*^i»«nr<'irf 



News from the Magazines ./\ ^.^y^f.V •"■•.'.'. 



Reviews and Book Notices 



Illustrations 



Plates v., VI., VII., VIII., IX., X. 



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