MAY 1908. 



a MAT liiUB 



No. 616 



(No. 394 of current series) 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



T. SHEPPARD, F.Q.S., F.S.A.Scot., ^ 



The Museum, Hull ; 



AND 



T. W. WOODHEAD, Ph.D, .F.L.S., 



Technical College, Huddersfield. 



with the assistance as referees in special departments of 

 J. GILBERT BAKER, F.R.S. F.L.S., GEO. T. PORRITT, F.L.S., F.E.S., 



Prof. P. F. KENDALL, M.Sc, F.Q.S., JOHN W. TAYLOR, 

 T. H. NELSON, M.B.O.U., WILLIAM WEST, F.L.S. 



Contents : — 



PAGES 



Notes and Comments (Illustrated) :— Postage of Scientific Literature ; The Dating of 

 Scientific Societies' Transactions ; The British Association Report (Leicester Meeting) ; 

 Wild Birds' Eggs in an Incubator ; Metriorhynchus brachyrhynchus ; Varieties of 

 Boarmia repandata; The Storeton Quarries; Derbyshire Naturalists: A Derbyshire Stone 

 Axe-head; Notices issued by the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union; Wild Birds Protection 



Acts 161-167 



Manx Ornithological Notes, 1907— P. G. Ralfe 168-169 



Plant Geography and Ecology in Switzerland (lllustrated)--r. IF. Woodhead, Ph.D., F.L.S. 170-174 



The Ice-borne Boulders of Yorkshire—/. H. Hoiuarth, J. P., F.G.S 175-180 



A Time=Table of Bird Song— ^F. Gyngell 181-184 



Prehistoric Remains from Lincolnshire (Illustrated)— T. Sheppard, F.G.S. , F.S.A. Scot.... 185-186 

 Fish and other Remains from the Chalk of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Illustrated; 



— -7'. Sheppard, F.G.S., F.S.A.Scot 187-1 9 



Dates of Publication— A. Bather, D.Sc. F.G.S. ... 190-192 



Field Notes • ... 169, 193-194 



Reviews and Book Notices (Illustrated) 194-195 



Northern News 174, 180, 184 186, 196 



Illustrations ; 163, 165, 166,182, 183, 185 



Plates XIV., XV., XVI., XVII., XVIIl , Xix! 



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