SEPTEMBER 1909. 



No. 632 



(No. 410 0/ currant series). 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



T. SMEPPARD, 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. QILBERT BAKER, F.R.S. F.L.S., GEO. T. PORRITF, P.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. 



RILEY FORTUNE, F.Z.S. 



Contents : — 



PAGE 



Notes and Comments :— Charles Darwin as Geologist ; A Useful Hammer ; Interesting Find 



at Huddersfield ; A National Folk-Lore Museum 305-306 



Oystercatcher Nesting at Spurn— (Illustrated)— OA-/e>' Grabham, M.A ., M.B.O.U 307-308 



Natural History of Runswick— T.S 309-318 



On the Geological Distribution of Mollusca in South Lonsdale— C. E. Y. Kendall, 



B.A., J. Davy Dean, and W. Munn Rankin, M.Sc, B.Sc 314-319 



Fungi in the Neighbourhood of Selby— C. Crossland, F.L.S 320 



Erratic Boulders at Bardney Abbey— F. M. Burton, F.L.S., F.G.S 322 



The Phytoplankton of the English Lake District (Illustrated)— W^w. West, F.L.S., and 



G. S. West, M.A.,D.Sc., F.L.S 323-331 



Coraicularia kochli Camb.— A Spider New to Great Britain— With a Key to the British 



Corniculariae — Wm. Falconer 332-333 



Field Notes 321, 322 



Reviews and Book Notices ... 306,333,336 



Northern News 336 



News from the Magazines 308 



Proceedings of Provincial Scientific Societies 313, 320, 334, 335 



Illustrations 307, 308, 310, 323, 324, 332 



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