FEBRUARY, 1912. 



No. 661 



(N: 439 •/ turrtnt ttrif). 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



T. SHEPPARD, F.G.S., F.R.G.S., F.S. A.Scot., 



Thb Museums, Hull ; /^VcOnian inS^ 



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



Tkchnical College, Huddersfield. 



MAR 1^ 



WITH TMB ASSISTANCE AS RBFBRBES IN SPECIAL DEPARTMEKTS OW 



J. aiLBERT BAKER. P.R.S. P.L.S.. GEO. T. PORRITF. P.U,S^^^|iS,. 



Prof. P. P. KENDALL. M.Sc. P.Q.S.. JOHN W. TAYLOR. ^---.~£L^ 



T. H. NELSON. M.B.O.U.. WILLIAM WEST. P.L.S.. 



RILEY FORTUNE, F.Z.S. 



Contents : — 



Nctea and Comments :-A Prehistoric Route ; Museum for Ripon ; The Scottish Naturalist ; 

 MicroscopicStructureof Coal; New Species; A New (?) Ox 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Heckmondwike 



Petrology In Yorkshire— ^//rerfHa»'fte»-,A/.^.,f.i?.S...F.G.S 



The Boring Habits of the PhoIas-Jo/in /rwng, Af.D 



Obituary Notice— Mary L. Armitt 



Bdella bexoptbalma Qeryals (mustT2ited)-C. F.George M.R.C.S 



The Beetles of the iScarborough Diistrfct-£. C/»fls, //om» . 



Notes on the Faeces of Young Birds— H^. Wilson 



Yorkshire Arachnlda In 191 i—T^^"i. Fa^coney 



Yorkshire Entomology in ipri-^^. »'/it7«ftera«ff£.B«>'/o»rf 



1:1.1.4 NAto.- Halvsites catenularia at Cragg Hill, Yorkshire (Illustrated)'; Black-belhed 

 '^'•"* '^D*rpe7a?SingtonrTSe Feeding Habits of the Gulls in the Scarborough District 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union— Vertebrate Section 



New Books on Geology, etc _ 



News from the Magazines 



Northern News 



Reviews and Book Notices 



Proceedings of Provincial Scientific Societies 



Illustrations 



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