■ Ill \r No* 666 



JULY, 1912. 



(No, 444 »f turrtnt terlei). 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



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



The Museums, Hull ; 



AND 



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



Technical College, Huddersfield. 

 with the assistance as referees in special departments op 

 J. aiLBERT BAKBR. F.R.S. P.L.S., GEO. T. PORRITF, F.L.S., P.E.S. 



Prol. P. P. KENDALL, M.Sc, F.O.S., JOHN W. TAYLOR, 



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



RILEY FORTUNE, F.Z.S. 



Contents : — 



PAGE 



Notes and Comments: — The Sportophyte; An Ecological Study; Clare Island and its 

 Botanical Survey ; ' Punch,' the Naturalist ; The new London Museum and its Catalogue ; 

 The Public Utility of Museums ; The York Museum and its new Lecture Theatre ; Roman 

 Ironi from Corbridge ; An East Anglian Elephant ; The Ipswich Skeleton; Ankerite in 



Coal; Insect Remains in Coal ; The Origin of Life 197-23;-J 



A Pre-Qlacial Lake-bed near Northallerton— firfiMn Hawkcsworth 204-205 



Phaeaagella Smlthlaaa Boud. in Yorkshire— C. Crossland 206-201 



Xanthia aurago in the West Riding: of Yorkshire— fl. Morley 208 209 



Yorkshire Naturalists at Bridlington (Illustrated)— W.JB.L.W 210-218 



Plant Associations of Flamborough Head (Illustrated)— 7". W. Woodhcact, Ph.D., F.L.S. 219-223 



In Memoriam— Thomas Newbitt, F.G.S. (Illustrated)—/. S ... 224-225 



A Humber Salt-Marsh— r. S?rtm/o>-//i, /3./1 225-226 



Field Notes (Illustrated) : — Dytiscus ciraimcinctus Ahr. in the East Riding ; Coleoptera at 

 Riccall and Skipwith ; White Rooks at Brompton ; Pine Marten in Cumberland ; Pine 

 Marten near Hebden Bridge 205, 226-227 



Northern News 203,207 



Museum News 209 



News from the Magazines 218,223 



Proceedings of Scientific Societies 228 



Illustrations 213, ,222, 224, 227 



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