SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR 1892 EXPIRE WITH THIS NUMBER. 



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DECEMBER, 1892. 



Fart XXIV. 



THE 



lEiiiiH miiiiAUif I 



AN 



ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE 



OF 



NATURAL HISTORY, 



CONDUCTED BY 



JOHN E. ROBSON, RE.S., Hartlepool, 



. WITH THE ASSISTANCE IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF 



G. C. BIGNELL, F.E.S., Plymouth ; 



C. A. BRIGGS, F.E.S., London; 



S. J. CAPPER, F.L.S., F.E.S., Liverpool 



C.W. DALE, F.E.S., Dorset-; 



GEO. ELISHA, F.E.S., London ; 



Dr. ELLIS, F.E.S., Liverpool ; 



W. A. GAIN, Tuxford; 



JOHN GARDNER, F.E.S. H.\rtlepool ; 



LINNiEUS GREENING, Warrington. 



C. S. GREGSON, Liverpool ; 



A. F. GRIFFITH, M.A., Brighton; 



G. A. LEWCOCK, London. 



]. P. SOUTTER, Bishop Auckland; 



BROCKTON TOMLIN, Llandaff ; 

 W. H. TUGWELL.Ph.C, Greenwich 

 SYDNEY WEBB, Dover. 



MONTHLY, PRIOE SIXPENCE, 



With a Portrait of some ivell-known Naturalist. 



XonDon : 



SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & Co., Paternoster Square. 



