No. 117. 



APRIL, 1885. 



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MONTHLY TOUKNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



WM. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S. 



AND 



WM. EAGLE CLARKE, F.L.S. , 



MEMBER OF THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 



§ontents : 



Bibliography of 1884 (Part II., Biros, continued) .. 



PAGE 



. .193 to 200 



Strasburger's New Investigations on the Process of Fertilisation in Phanerogams — 



T/toj;ias Hick, B. A., B. Sc. (cox\tmua.non) .. .. .. .. .. . 20310205 



Micro-Palaeontology of the Northern Carboniferous Shales — C J?. Vine .. ..207 to 212 



(IV. Polyzoa, Entomostraca, Gasteropoda, and Miscellaneous Organisms of the Skelly Gate 

 Shales: Northumberland). 



Notes on Mammalia: — 202 



The Noctule Bat in Co. Durham — JV. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S. \ Whiskered Bat near 

 Pateley Bridge — James Ingleby ; Capture of a Badger in Nidderdale — Wm. Storey; 

 Squirrel Attacked by a Small Bird — A. IV. Price; Squirrel's Method of Carrying its 

 Young— G^^. IV. Oldfield, M.A., F.L.S. 



Ornithological Notes :— 201 



Bird-notes from Nidderdale — IV. Storey, Notes from Rainworth, Notts. — y. JVkitaker, 

 F.Z.S.; Notes from Whitby — Thomas Stephenson; Birds near Halifax — F. G. S. 

 Raivson', Missel Thrush — H. Wallis Keiv; Grev Lag Goose in Nottinghamshire — 

 5^. Whitaker, F.Z.S. 



Note on Coleoptera:— . 206 



Astynomus aedilis at Wakefield — E. B. Wrigglesworth. 

 Notes on Lepidoptera: — 206 



Erastria fuscula : a species new to Yorkshire — W. E. Brady ; the Lepidopterous Fauna of 

 Lancashire and Cheshire — Herbert Goss, F.L.S. 

 Geological Notes : — 212, 213 



A Buried Valley — Osmund W. Jeffs; Drift-Coal in T>\yc\\z.xn.— Herbert Prodham. 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union: Annual Meeting at Doncaster 213,214 



Notes and News 214, 215 



Meteroiogical Returns for January, 1885 216 



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