JANUARY, 1912. 



No. 660 



(No. 438 »f turrtnt Mtries). 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



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



Thb Museums, Hull ; 



AND 



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



Technical College, Huddersfield. 



with thb assistance as referees in special departments of 

 J. aiLBBRT BAKER. F.R.S. F.L.S., QEO. T. PORRITF, 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 : — 



Notes and Comments: — British Mycologists; Silver Leaf; Polypores and Clavarias ; 

 The Club-shaped Fungi ; The Study of Fungi ; The Yorkshire Mycological 

 Committee; The British Mycological Society; East Riding Nature Study: 

 Metallurgy and Engineering ; History of Fossil Botany ; The Structure of Fossil 

 Plants; Leaves of Calamites ; A New British Polyzoon ; Nomenclature Again ; 

 Glacial Geology of Norfolk and Suffolk ; Yorkshire Naturalists' Union ; Valuable 

 Yorkshire Maps ; Urocyclus roebucki 



Water Voles making Nests above ground (Illustrated)— Sj'rfney H. Smith 



Notes on the Cretaceous Fossils in the East Yorkshire Drift—/. P.J.Ravn... 



Marine Biology at Scarborough— ^4 rno/rf T. H^fl/sOM, FX.S 



Field Notes: — Abundance of Wild Fruits in the Harrogate District ; Black Redstart in 

 Yorkshire ; Uncommon Birds at Hebden Bridge ; A Rare Parasitic Hymenopteron 

 at Pilling Moss, near Garstang, Lancashire 



The 'New' Botany— F. ^ . Z,ees 



Some New Books— History and Topography 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union Report for 191 1 ... 



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