DECEMBER 1909. 



No. 635 



(No. 413 of ourrtnt series). 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTrt 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. aiLBBRT BAKER, F.R.S. F.L.S., GEO. T. PORRITF, P.L.S., 



Pi-of. P. F. KENDALL, M.Sc, F.G.S., JOHN W. TAYLOR, 



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



RILEf FORTUNE, F.Z.S. 



F.E.S., 



Contents : — 



Notes and Comments :— The late 'Dr. W. H. Dallinger, F.R.S. ; A Climbing Snapdragon 

 The Bielsbeck Deposit ; Migration of Terns, etc. 



The Disappearance of the Plaice— Pro/. W. Garstang, M.A,,D.Sc 



The Study of a Fircone (Illustrated)— Mrs. £. Hughes Gibb 



Genera and Species in Fungi— M. C. Cooke, LL.D., M.A., A.L.S., V.M.H., etc. 



Fungus Foray at Castle Howard— C. Crossland, F.L.S 



Some British Earthmites Trombidlidas (Illustrated)— C. F. George, M.R.C.S 



The Annelid Fauna of Worcestershire— Rev. Hilderic Friend 



The Chemistry of some Common Plants — P. Q. Keegan, LL,D 



On the Geographical Distribution of Mollusca in South Lonsdale— 2?et^. C. E. Y. Kendall, 

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



Notes on East Riding Spiders in igog—E. A. Parsons and T. Stainforth 



Field Notes 



Reviews and Book Notices 



Northern News ... 



Proceedings of Provincial Scientific Societfes 



News from the Magazines 



illustrations 



Plate XVIII. 



Title=<page, List of Plates, List of Contributors, and Index to this Volume. 



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