OCTOBER, 1912. ^^' ^^^ 



(No, 447 tf *urrtnt ttritt). 



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 ; 



AND 



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



Technical College, Huddersfield. 



with the 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 : — 



PACK 



Notes and Comments: — The British Association; The Handbook ; Sectional Reports ; 

 The Annual Report ; The Presidential Address ; The Origin of Life ; Spontaneous 

 Generation; Formation of Living Substance ; £10,000; Sir Joseph Hooker a Philoso- 

 phical Biologist ; Address to the Botanical Section ; Mendelism 293-297 



Buckton Marsh, East Yorkshire (Illustrated) — W. E. L. Wattam 298-300 



Field Notes : — Cotyledon in South-West Cumberland ; Pygmy Shrew near Scarborough ; 

 Levantine Shearwater at Scarborough ; Melanic Guillemot at Filey ; Honey Buzzard, etc.', 

 at Hebden Bridge ; Marine Shells at Bridlington ; Hymenoptera, etc., at Tebay ; Mosses at 

 Tebay ; Cnc«//«»j(s g/ofcosi(s in the Derwent 301-303 



Arachnida at Tebay — W.P. Winter, P. Sc 304-305 



Second Supplement to the Flora of Dewsbury and District— B;- the late P. Fcx Lee 306-309 



The Spiders of Wicken, Cambrid£:e (Illustrated^ — Win, Falconer 310-324 



Reviews and Book Notices 303 309 



Northern New« 297, 300 



Proceedings of Scientific Societies 305,324 



Illustrations .51. 



Plates XV., XVI., XVII. 



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