MARCH 1909. 



SPECIAL SPRING NUMBER. 



ONB SHILLING NET. 



No. 626 



(No. 404 of eurr»nt »*ri*»} 



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 ; 



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



Technical College, Huddersfield. 



Contents : — 



Notes and Comments (Illustrated) :— Large Larch Saw-fly in the Lake District; A 

 Poisonous Fungus; The Food of Birds, A Thousand Chester Records ; New Botanical 

 Finds ; New Spiders ; Derbyshire Glaciers, A Geographical Observation, Glaciers and 

 Place-Names ; The National Trust ; How to tell the Birds from the Flowers — The Crow, 

 The Crocus ; Animal Analogues — The Bee, the Beet, The Beetle, Ants and Pheasants ... 



Notes on Bats (Illustrated;— .4) ^/>«;- Whitaker 



Paucity of Redwings in the West Riding— Harry B. Booth, M.B.O.U 



Euphrasias of North=ea8t Yorkshire—/. G. Baker, F.R.S 



The Hornet in Yorkshire— i?ft. W. C. Hey, M.A 



Fossil Plants from the Marske and Upleatham Quarries, Yorkshire— George J. 

 Lane, F.G.S., and T. W. Saiuuiers 



The Migratory Movements of certain Shore=Birds as observed on the Dublin Coast 

 —C.J. Patten, M.A., M.D., Sc.D 



Some British Earthmites (Illustrated)— C. F. George 



Two Ancient Burial Cairns on Brimham Moor, Yorkshire— A . Leslie Ar}nstrong P. A. S.I. 



Some Lincolnshire Boulders— F. M. Burton, F.G.S., F.L.S 



The Oxford British Plant List— G. Claridge Drnce. M.A., F.L.S 



Additional Note— F. Arnold Lees, M.R.C.S 



The Sycamore— P. Q. Keegau, LL.D 



Freshwater Rhizopods from the Sheffield Histrict—James B. Broivn, B.Sc 



Beetles of Lancashire and Cheshire— F. G- Bayford, F.E.S. 



Field Notes (Illustrated) 



The Phytoplankton of the English Lake District (Illustrated; — IF;n. West, F.L.S., and 

 G. S. West, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S 



In Memoriam (Illustrated)— Wilfred H. Hudleston, F.R.S., F.Q.S., etc.— 7 . S 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union Meetings 



Reviews and Book Notices 77, 80, 86, 92, 9G, 100, 110, 114 



Northern News 



Illustrations 



Plates I., II., III., IV,, v., V5., VII., VIII. 



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