SPECIAL BRITISH ASSOCIATION NUMBER. 



ONE SHILLING NET. 



SEPTEMBER 1906. 



No. 596 



(No. 374 0/ currtnt eeriei). 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



T. SHEPPARD, F.Q.S., 



The Museum, Hull ; 



AND 



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



Technical College, Huddersfield ; 

 with the assistance as referees in special departments of 

 J. OILBERT BAKER, F.R.S. F.L.S., GEO. T. PORRITT, F.L.S., F.E.S., 



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



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



WILLIAM WEST, F.L.S. 



Contents : — 



Notes and Comments (Illustrated) : — The York Meeting, Statistics, Entertainments, Dr. 

 Tempest Anderson, The Red Lions, Excursions, Future Meetings, The Advancement 

 of Science, Public Officials, and Their Education, Old and New Lecture Societies, 

 Professor Ray Lankester's Requested Resignation, Conference of Delegates, Meteoro- 

 logical observations, Photographic Survey, Corresponding Societies, Mr. W. Eagle 

 Clarke 



Zoology at the British Association — Oxley Gmbham, M.A., M.B.O.U 



Anthropology at the British Association 



Botany at the British Association 



Melanism in Lepidoptera—G.T.Poriill,F.L.S.,F.E.S. 



On British Drifts and the Interglacial Problem — G. W. Lamplugh, F.R.S 



Lead Mining in Yorkshire— James Backhouse 



The Origin of the British Trias— Pro/. T. G. Bonney, Sc.D., LL.D., F.R.S 



A Recently Discovered Skeleton in Scoska Cave, LIttondale— //nroW Brodrkk, M.A. 

 andC. .4.Hin,M.B.,B.A 



Faults as a Predisposing Cause for the Existence of Pot>Holes on Ingleborough— 

 Harold Brodrick, M.A 



Recent Exposures of Glacial Drift at Doncaster and Tickhill (Illustrated) — H. Culpin 

 and G. Grace, B.Sc 



Coast-Erosion — Clement Reid, F.R.S 



Notes on the Speeton Ammonites— C. G. Danford 



The Limestone Knolls of Craven — .A. Wilmore 



Life-Zones in the British Carboniferous Rocks — Dr. Wheelton Hind, F.G.S. 



Coal-balls found in Coal Seams— jUiss M. C. Slopes, D.Sc, Pli.D 



The Artesian Boring for the Supply of the City of Lincoln from the New Red Sand- 

 stone— Pro/ .EJ!.'afrf Hh//, LL.£)., F.i?.S 



Plain of Marine Denudation beneath the Drift of Holderness— Pro/. P. F. 



Kendall, F.G.S. and W. H. Crofts 



Fossiliferous Drift Deposits at Kirmington, Lincolnshire, and at Various 

 Localities in the East Riding of Yorkshire— y. W. Slather, F.G.S 



The Occurrence, Distribution, and Mode of Formation of the Calcareous Nodules 

 found in Coal Seams of the Lower Coal Measures — Prof. F. E. Weiss 



A Stigmaria of Unusual Type — Prof. F. E. Weiss ... 



Field Notes 291, 



Reviews and Book Notices (illustrated) 



Northern News 293,317, 



Illustrations 281, 2*3. 2^4. 



Plate XXIV. 



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