DECEiMBER, 1912. 



No. 671 



(Nt, 449 »f turrtnt friti). 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLA^D. 



EDITED BY 



T. SMEPPARD, 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 OP 



J. aiLBBRT BAKBR. F.R.S. F.L.S., QEO. T. PORRITF, P.U 



Prof. P. F. KENDALL, M.Sc, F.Q.S. 

 T. H. NELSON. M.B.O.U., 



RILEY FORTUNE, F.Z.S. 



JOHN W. TAYLORj,y^U50,^jg« f 

 WILLIAM WEST.yi^^Vj'^*'" *" " 

 MP. p.r.s. / ^ 



DEC 16 



1912 



Contents :- 



Notes and Comments:— Sir Joseph Hooker on Fos<;il Plants ; Kxtinction of Whales ; 



Manchester Musmiin ; A British Ecological Society ; British Marine Cercariae ; An in- 

 teresting Yorkshire Calaniite ; The Scunthorpe Museum ; Snakestones ; A Pheasant's Meal 357-330 



Field Notes: — Fork-tailed Petrel near Harrogate; Adrorbis subcarinatus at Scarborough; 

 Dispersal of Fresh-water Shells 



The MlllKtone Orit of Yorkshire: Some new Evidence as to its Source of Origin — 

 Albert GilliKxn, Il.Sr. F.G.S 



The Qenus Tricholoma— .4//mf C'n>^< 



Alycology, New an-i 0}d— George Massec, F.L.S., V.M.H 



A New British Hepatic (Cephaloziella pulchella C. iens.)-Wm. Iwiliam, B.A. 



Yorkshire Marine Biolojry Committee at Robin Hood's Bay— F. H. Woods 



Bibliotrraphy : Papers and Records published with respect to the Geology and Pakeoutology 

 of the North of England (Yorkshire excepted), during 1912 — T. Shel>t-ard, F.G.S 



Review* and Book Notices (Illustrated) 



Northern News 



Proceedings of Scientific Societies 



3(il 



362-363 

 364-365 

 366-367 

 367 

 368-370 



371-372 



... 373-383 



... 360, 367 



384 



News from the Magazines 

 Illustrations 



3n, 363, 370, 385 

 381,382 



Title-page, List of Plates, List of Contributors, and Index to this Yolume. 



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