SEPTEMBER, 1912. ^®* ^^^ 



(N», 446 tf »urr»Ht »*ri*»). 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



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



The Muskums, Hull ; 



AND 



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



Tbchnical College, Huddersfiblo. 



with the assistance as referees in special departments op 



J. aiLBBRT BAKBR. P.R.S. P.L.S., QEO. T. PORRiTT, P.L.S., P.E.S. 



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

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



RILEY FORTUNE. F.Z.S. 



Contents :■ 



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Notes and Comments:— The National Trust; Exeunt the Bradford Scientific Journal ; 

 Prehistoric Thorpe ; Seventeenth Century Science ; The Origin of Life ; Carlisle 

 Naturalists ; Glasgow Geologists ; Changes in Ihe Lower Dee Valley ; Guide to the 

 National Reading Room 261-265 



Lamprophyre Dykes at ^ Long Sleddale, Weatmorlani— Alfred Marker, M A., F.R.S., 



F.G.S 266-267 



Chemical Constituents of 'Nloorlog'— T. Lenton Elliott 268-269 



The Evolution of Bridlington— 7". Sheppard, F.G.S 270-273 



Yorkshire Naturalists at Tebay— H^.£.L.H^. 274-278 



Notes on the Botany of Cautley and Tebay (Illustrated)— T. IK. Woodhtad,Ph.D., F.L.S. 278-281 



Yorkshire Plan by William Smith (Illustrated)— r.S 282-283 



Field Notes : — Trollius europceus in Div. II. S.W. Cumberland ; Ancistrouycha abdominalis F. 

 in J arrow ; Unusual Situatiou for a Waterhen's Nest (Illustrated) ; The Kite in Yorkshire 



in 1682 283-284,290 



Second Supplement to the Flora of Dewsbury and District— £> the late P. Fox Lee 285-289 



News from the Magazines 265-273 



Museum News 269 



Reviews and Book Notices 290-291 



Proceedings of Scientific Societies 291-292 



Illustrations 280,282.284 



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