PREFACE. 



On the completion of their first volume the present Editors tender 

 thanks to the contributors and subscribers whose generous and hearty 

 co-operation has assured the success of the journal and made it what 

 it aims to be, the recognised natural history organ for the ten northern 

 counties of England and the Isle of Man. Reference to the list of 

 contributors at p. 407 will show how extensively the sympathies of 

 northern naturalists have been enlisted, and the value and importance 

 of their contributions may be ascertained by an inspection of the 

 contents of this volume. 



The papers on the micro-palaeoTitology of the northern carboni- 

 ferous shales, the oolites of the Cave district, the botany of Teesdale, 

 and the natural history of Spurn, together with the lists of marine 

 algae of Scarborough (including one described as new to science), of 

 the coleoptera and lepidoptera of Lancashire and Cheshire, and of 

 the avifaunas of Teesdale, Coquetdale, and the Solway, together with 

 the regular series of meteorological observations, may be cited as 

 useful contributions towards the systematic working out of definite 

 lines of investigation. Besides this, numerous important new specific 

 records have been made. 



For Northumberland and Durham, Arenaria serpyllifolia^ Centim- 

 culus minimtts^ Radiola millegraiia^ Viola airtisii^ and Corallorhiza 

 ijijiata among the plants, ChcBrocampa nei'ii among the insects, the 

 Spotted Eagle and the Red-breasted Flycatcher among the birds, 

 and the Noctule among the mammalia, are important additions, the 

 two birds and the Corallorhiza being also new to the north of 

 England. 



For Cumberland and Westmoreland two new maritime varieties 

 of well-known British plants are described for the first time. 



For Lancashire and Cheshire, besides various cryptogams and the 

 numerous species of coleoptera and lepidoptera, Heliothis peltigera is 

 recorded. 



For Derbyshire (and the Isle of Man) little appears to have been 

 done of late, except among the cryptogamia, one or two of which are 

 probably new. 



For Nottinghamshire the additions are two — the Pufifin and 

 Amalia gagates. 



For Lincolnshire the Wild Cat, the Sperm Whale (a three-century- 

 old record), Temminck's Stint, and Amalia gagates may be cited. 



The Yorkshire additions are numerous and important. The two 

 Whales — Sowerby's and Rudolphi's— are both species of extreme 

 rarity anywhere, and quite new to England also. The Barred Warbler, 

 Desert Chat, Whiskered Tern (all three new to the north), and 

 Little Owl raise the recorded avifauna to 311, and Pahidina contecta 



Dec. 1885. 



