JUNE 1909. 



5 JUN. 1903 



No. 629 



(No. 407 of ourrtnt aeries). 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND 



EDITED BY 



T. SHEPPARD, F.G.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. 



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

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



RILEY FORTUNE, F.Z.S. 



F.E.S. 



Contents : — 



Notes and Comments ^ Illustrated) :— The Flamborough Peregrines; Swings; The Girls' 

 Realm Extended; Eggs as Tops; The Descent of Darwin; The British Association 

 Report; The Solitary Ant; A Primitive Dreadnought 



Osprey in Yorkshire— ly. H. St. Quintin, F.Z.S. , etc 



in Memoriam (Illustrated)— William Croser Hey— 7. S 



The Ammonites called A. serpeatinus (Illustrated)— C. Thompson, B.Sc. (Lond.) 



Recently Discovered Fungi in Yorkshire— C. Crossland, F.L.S 



News from the Magazines 



Sermons in Stones— T. S. 



Some New Books on Evolution 



The Present State of Our Knowledge of Carboniferous Geology— Dr. Wheelton 

 F.R.C.S., F.G,S 



Yorkshire Naturalists at Market Weighton (Illustrated) 



Field Notes (Illustrated) 



Polymorphism in Fungi^(Illustrated)— G. Massee, V.M.H., etc. 



Museum News 



Reviews and Book Notices 



Northern News 



Illustrations 



Plates XII,, XIII., XIV., XV. 



209, 211, 216, 232, 



209-212 

 212-213 



213 

 214-219 

 220-223 



223 

 224-225 

 226-227 



228-231 

 232-234 

 225, 234 

 235-238 



219, 239-240 

 240 

 234. 235 



Hind, 



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