No. 122. 



SEPTEMBER, 1885. 



MONTHLY JOURNAL 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. 



Contents : 



Micro-Palaeontology of Northern Carboniferous Shales — G. R. Vine ..313 to 320 



(V. Upper Carboniferous Shales, Northumberland Yoredale : Fourstones, ' Inghoe,' Lowick. 

 Polyzoa and Entomostraca). 



Coleoptera of the Liverpool District: (Part VI.— Lamellicornia) 322 to 325 



John W. Ellis, L.R.C.P., 



Luminous Wood — Charles T. Mussoii .. 326, 327 



Ornithological Note : — 336 



Little Owls in Yorkshire->j^//^ IV/iilaker, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



Conchological Notes:— 320, 321 



Occurrence of Limax cinereo-niger in Washburndale — W. Denisoit Roebuck^ F.L.S.; 

 Achatina acicula at Knottingley — R. D. Darbishire, B.A., F.G.S.; Achatina acicula — 

 T. D. A. Cockerell ; Achatina acicula and its occurrence near Wakefield — Geo. Roberts ; 

 Amalia gagates in Notts. — JV. Gain. 



Botanical Notes:— 320 



Lathraea squamaria near Dewsbury — C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S.; Elder growing upon a 

 Willow—^. Wallis Kew. 



Book Notice :— 328 



(Jeffrey Bell's Comparative Anatomy and Physiology). 

 Notes and News .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 328, 329 



Meteorological Returns for June 1885— (Edited by Geo. Paid, F.G.S., F.R.Mel.S.) . . 330 

 Bibliography of 1884 : (Part VI.— Phanerogamic Botany) 331 to 336 



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