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 Heligoland (illustrated by photographic plate).— John Cordeaux, M.B.O.U. 

 {This ivill appear in the January Ntimber.) 



The OrnithologF of Skiddaw, Scawfell, and Helvellyn.— John Watson. 



Botany of the Cumberland part of the Pennine Range — J. Gilbert Baker, 



F.R.S., F.L.S., etc. 

 A Cuxious Habitat for some Mosses— C. P. Hobkirk:, F.L.S. 

 List of the Flora of Wensleydale.— John Percival, B.A. 

 List of Hymenoptera occurring near Kirton-in-Lindsey — C. F. George. 



List of Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Airedile.- H. T. Soppitt and 

 J. W. Carter. 



Interesting G-eological Discovery at Wortley, Leeds.— C. Brownridgf, F.G.S. 



The Yorkshire Boulder Committee and its work dui ing 1887— S. A. Adamson, 

 F.G.S. 



Coal-Dust and Explosions in Coal-Mines— Rev. Arthur Watts, F.G.S. 

 Yorkshire Naturalists at Welton Vale, and on Hatfield Chace. 

 North of England Specimens in the British Museum — T. D. A. Cockerell. 

 Obituary Notice of .Tohn Sang— J. E. Robson. 



The Editors are open to receive suitable papers for insertion, particularly on Botany, 

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