APRIL, 1912. 



No. 663 



(No, 441 »f turnnt teritt). 



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., 



The Museums, Hull ; 



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



Technical College, Huddersfield. 



WITH the assistance as referees in special departments op 

 J. QILBBRT BAKER. P.R.S. P.L.S., GEO. T. PORRITF, F.L.S.. P.E.S. 



Prof. P. P. KENDALL, M.Sc, F.Q.S., JOHN W. TAYLOR, 



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



RILEY FORTUNE, F.Z.S. 



Contents : — 



Notes and Comments (Illustrated) : — Some Scientilic Serials ; The Nature Book ; British 

 Birds' Nests ; British Mammals ; Land and Freshwater Mollusca; ' Scientific ' Names ; 

 European Biological.Stations ; Prehistoric Anthropology ; Ancient Hunters, and their 

 Modern Representatives ; Prehistoric Man ; Evolution in the Past ; Restoration of 

 Ancient Life ; Lancashire Pigmy Implements ; An interesting Palasozoic Fern ; York- 

 shire Type Ammonites ; Stratigraphical Names ; The Mineral Kingdom ; A Strange 

 Animal 



Notes on the Qeolosry of the Vale of Eden (Illustrated)— Pro/. Kendall, M.Sc.,F.G.S 



Appendix on the Igneous Rocks— Alfred Marker, F.R.S 



Coast Changes at Hornsea (Illustrated)— T. Sheppard, F.G.S 



Field Notes: — Testacella scutidum at Brighouse, Yorkshire; Bohemian Waxwings at Grange 



97-104 

 105-111 

 111-113 

 114-120 



over Sands ; The Common Sandpiper in March ; The Wood Scirpus (S. sylvaticus) in 

 East Yorkshire ; Mosses and Hepatics at Knaresborough ; Roesleria pallida (Pers.) 

 Sacc, in Yorkshire; Shags inland in January 113,120,126 



In Memoriam— William Fowler (Illustrated)— £..4. H^.-P. 



Phineas Fox Lee (Illustrated)— T. IF. l-F. ... 

 Yorkshire Bryologists at Pateley Bridge— C. A. Cheetham 



Some New Books 



Proceedings of Provincial Scientific Societies 



News from the Magazines 



Northern News 



Illustrations 



Plates I.— XI. 



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 ... 128-125 

 126 

 ... 127-129 

 130 

 131 

 132 

 98, 100, 101, 103, 107, 115, 124 



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