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Leeds Geological Association* Trans., Part 12, 1898-1900. [The Association. 



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 Journal of Malacology, Vol. 8, No. i, 25th March 1901. [W. E. Collinge, Editor. 

 Annals of Scottish Nat. Hist., No. 38, for April 1901. [The Editors, Edinburgh. 

 Entomological Society of London.— Transactions, 1900, Part 5, 19th April 1901. [Soc. 

 Manchester Geol. Society. — Trans., Vol. 26, Title and Index, 1901. [The Society. 

 Lincolnshire Notes and Queries, Vol. 6, No. 50, for April 1901. [The Editors. 



The Halifax Naturalist, Vol. 6, No. 31, for April 1901. [Halifax Scientific Society. 

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Bristol Naturalists' Society. —Title and Index to Vol. 8. [The Society. 



Boston Society of Nat. History. — Proceedings, Vol. 29, No. 10, April 1900. [Soc. 

 Hobbies, Vol. 10, Nos. 282-4, 9th, 16th, 23rd March 1901. [The Publishers. 



New Mexico College of Agriculture. — Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 



No. 32, December 1899 : Grasses and Forage Crops, by C.A. Keffer. [College. 

 Geological Magazine, N.S., Dec. 4, Vol. 8, No. 441, for March 1901. 

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Science Gossip, N.S., Vol. 7, No. 83, for April 1901. [John T. Carrington, Editor. 

 Psyche: Journ. of Entom., No. 300, for April 1901. [Cambridge Ent. Club, U.S.A. 

 Knowledge, Vol. 24, No. 186, for April 1901. [H. F. Witherby, Ed., London. 



La F'euille des Jeunes Naturalistes, No. 366, i' r Avril 1901. [Mons. Adrien Dollfuss. 

 Entomologists' Record, Vol. 13, No. 4, 15th April 1901. [J. W. Tutt, Editor. 



The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 10, No. 4, for April 1901. [The Editors, Dublin. 



The Zoologist, 4th Series, Vol. 5, No. 718, 15th April 1901. [West, Newman & Co., Publ. 

 Nature Notes, Vol. 12, No. 136, for April 1901. [Selborne Society, London. 



J. W. Stather.— Sources and Distribution of the Far-Travelled Boulders of East 



Yorkshire, 8vo. reprint, Jan. 1901. [Author. 

 Arthur Bennett. — Notes on West Ross Plants, 8vo. reprint, April 1901. [Author. 

 Hull Museum. — Catalogueof the Pease Collection of Birds, 8vo. , 1896 [T.Sheppard. 

 Naturalists' Monthly Review, No. 1, April 1901. [J. & W. Davis, Publishers. 



W. Swaysland. — Famiiiar Wild Birds, Part 1, April 1901. [Cassell & Co., Publ. 

 Scientia, No. 10. — Ed. Griffon, sur I' Assimilation Chlorophvllienne et la Structure 



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