AUG.-SEPT., 1922. 
Nos. 787-788 
Nos. 561-2 of current Series 
A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL 
PRINCIPALLY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 
EDITED BY 
T. SHEPPARD, M.Sc., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., F.S.A.Scot. 
The Museums, Hull ; 
AND 
T. W. WOODHEAD, Ph.D., M.Sc., F.L.S., 
Technical College, Huddersfield, 
WITH THE ASSISTANCE AS REFEREES IN SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS OF 
G. T. PORRITT, F.L.S., F.E.S. 
JOHN W. TAYLOR, M.Sc. RILEY FORTUNE, F.Z.S. 
Contents : 
Notes and Comments 
Pleistocene and Later Birds of Great Britain and Ireland — Alfred 
Bell 
Unrecorded Egg of the Great Auk (illustrated) — T.S. 
The Kirmington Deposits — T.S. ... 
The Spittal at Filey Brig (illustrated) — T.S. 
The Physiological Anatomy of the Vascular Plants Characteristic 
of Peat (illustrated) — J. H. Priestley and Mildred Hinchliff 
Plant Distribution and Basic Ratios — W . H. Pearsall, D.Sc., F.L.S. 
Scarcity of Corn Bunting in the Wilsden District — R.F. ... 
Notes on Specimens of Cephalopoda figured in Tate and Blake’s 
* Yorkshire Lias,’ 1876 — By the late George C. Crick, A.R.S.M., 
F.G.S. 
Yorkshire Naturalists at Thornton Dale — W, H 
F. A. Mason, F.R.M.S . ... 
Ninety Years of Science 
Field Notes 
News from Magazines 
Proceedings of Provincial Scientific Societies. 
Reviews and Book Notices ... ... ... ... ... ... 253, 
Northern News ... ... ... ... ... ...262, 271, 272 
Illustrations ... •••254, 257, 258, 
Pearsall , D.Sc., and 
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290, 
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