MAY, 1912. 



No. 664 



(Nt, 442 »f ourrtnt terlet). 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



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



The Museums, Hull ; 



AND 



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



Technical College, Huddersfield. 

 with the assistance as referees in special departments of 

 J. aiLBERT 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 : — 



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Notes and Comments (Illustrated) :— Foreign Birds in Britain ; The Great Auk ; The 

 Ipswich Skeleton ; Glacial Age not proven ; A Cast of the Skull ; The Divining Rod ; 

 The Post Office and Natural History Specimens ; The Law and Natural History 

 Specimens ; The South Kensington Museum ; The Palaeontographical Society ; Fossil 

 Mammals; Ganoid Fishes ; Fossil Fishes of the Chalk ; Fossil Chalk Inocerami ... 133-137 



138 



139-140 



Shelly Clay from the Dogger Bank—/. W. Stather,F.G.S 



A Method of Removing Tests from Fossils— S. S. Buckman, F.G.S. 



Carpophilus sexpustulatus F., its Congeners, and their Occurrence in the 



British Isles— £. G. Bayford, F.E.S 141-145 



146-149 



150-151 



A Museum of Fisheries and Shipping (Illustrated)— B. A. 



In Memoriam— Robert H. Philip (Illustrated)— r. S. 



Bibliography: Papers and Records published with respect to the Geology and Palaeontology 



of the North of England (Yorkshire excepted), during 1910— T. Sheppard, F.G.S. ... 152-160 



Field Notes: — Jackdaws occiipying Magpie's Nest ; Fame Islands Association ; Bird Notes 

 from the Scarborough District 



Museum News 



Reviews and Book Notices 



Proceedings of Provincial Scientific Societies (lUustraj 



News from the Magazines 



Northern News 



Illustrations 



Plates XII., XIII,, XIV. 



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