AUGUST 1903. 



(Publithed 1st August 1903. J 



No. 559. 



{No. 337 of current aeries.) 



A 'Ittllillall.L.: 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF '^ 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



T. SHEPPARD, F.G.S., and T. W. WOODHEAD, F.L.S., 



MitSEUM, Hl'll; Technical College, Huddersfield ; 



WITH THE ASSISTANCE AS RKFERF.KS IN SPECIAL DKPAUT.MEN IS OF 



J. GILBERT BAKER, F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 PERCY F. KENDALL, F.G.S., 

 T. H. NELSON, M.B.O.U., 



GEO. T. PORRITT, F.L.S., F.E.S. 

 JOHN W. TAYLOR, F.L.S., 

 WILLIAM WEST, F.L.S. 



Contents : — 



Notes and Comments (Illustrated):— Pig-my Flints, Publications of Societies should 

 be kept Local, What not to publish. Dr. Bather and Museums 



Observations on RooU.s—Jiii'ir/ V. Blackburn 



North of England Pseudoscorpions (Illustrated) — H. Wallis Kevo, F.Z.S. 



Yorkshire Naturalists at Goathland— 7'. S 



Lincolnshire Freshwater Mites (Illustrated)— C. F. George, M.R.C.S. 

 Lincolnshire Qa\\s~Rev. E. A. W. Peacock, L.Th., etc., and Miss S. C. Stow 

 Hull's Contribution to Science — Thomas Sheppard. F.G.S. 



An Oolitic Plant Bed in North Cleveland .. 



Reviews and Book Notices 



Field Notes 



Northern News 



illustrations 



303, 304 



PAGES. 



289-291 



292 



293-300 



300-303 



304 



3OS-306 



307-312 



312-317 



317 



3i8-3tg 



320 



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