Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-Upon Tyne, 1985 – 1991

Summary

This volume includes:

Volume 54

• Early Bird Records for Northumberland and Durham by David Gardner-Medwin (pp. 5 – 22)
• The Meteorological Background to Siberian Passerine Vagrancy in Northumbria: October 1982 by Dennis Wheeler (pp. 23 – 30)
• Rosasite and Aurichalcite from the Northern Pennine Orefield by B. Young, T. Pettigrew and T. F. Bridges (p. 31)

Volume 55

• Part 1
  • Obituary: Grace Hickling MBE, MA, MBOU by D. R. Shannon (pp. 5 – 11)
  • A magnetic study of the Holy Island en-echelon dyke system, Northumberland by R. M. El-Harathi and D. H. Tarling (pp. 12 – 19)
  • Glacial drift thickness in the Tyne Gap, Northumberland by A. Bouledroua, D. H. Tarling and A. G. Lunn (pp. 20 – 27)
  • The fauna of mining subsidence pools in Northumberland by J. Adams and Helen Robbins (pp. 28 – 38)
  • New records of fishes from the northeast coast of England, with notes on the rediscovery of part of the ‘type collection’ of marine fishes from the Dove Marine Laboratory by Peter. S. Davis and Alasdair. J. Edwards (pp. 39 – 46)
  • Some observations on the memorable weather in North East England during September 1986 by Dennis A. Wheeler (pp. 47 – 54)
• Part 2
  • George Clayton Atkinson and the Northumberland tree survey 1873-76 by A. V. Seaton (pp. 59 – 83)
  • Coal measures of the river Wear gorge at Durham, England by G. A. L. Johnson and Gordon Richardson (pp. 84 – 96)
  • Aquatic faunal communities and their fluctuations in adjacent ponds by David Green (pp. 97 – 135)
  • Factors influencing the large-scale displacement of little auks towards the Northumberland coast, November 1987 by D. A. Wheeler (pp. 136 – 143)
• Short Communications
  • Oribatid mites from Holy Island by M. Luxton (pp. 144 – 146)
  • New records of Ostracods from the Lake District by D. J. Horne, D. M. Horne and J. E. M. Horne (pp. 147 – 148)
  • The first occurrence of torsk Brosme brosme (Ascarius, 1772) from the coast of Northumberland, and additional records of the swordfish Xiphias gladius by P. S. Davis (p. 149)
  • Stevensite from Upper Teesdale, Co. Durham, a second British occurrence by B. Young and D. Schofield (p. 150) 
• Part 3
  • The birds of the Farne Islands by Peter Hawkey (pp. 155 – 192)
  • The mid-winter of 1988-89 in north-east England by D. A. Wheeler (pp. 193 – 199)
  • A magnetometer survey of the eastern margin of the Cheviot granite  by D. A. Robson (pp. 200 – 204)
• Short Communications
  • Records of rare fishes from the Northumberland coast by P. S. Davis (pp. 205 – 206)
  • An occurrence of witherite in Weardale, Co. Durham, Northern Pennines by B. Young (pp. 206 – 207)
• Part 4
  • Gosforth Park Nature Reserve annual report 1991 by P. Hammock and D. C. Noble-Rollin (pp. 213 – 243)
  • Thomas Belt and his ant/plant symbioses by T. G. Walker (pp. 245 – 261)
  • The Grey Seal Halichoerus grypus at the Farne Islands: 1986 – 1989 by P. Hawkey (pp. 263 – 271)
  • The current status and plant ecology of disused railway lines in North Tyneside by D. N. Mitchell and J. A. Cooke (pp. 273 – 282)
  • The exceptional temperatures of August 1990 in north east England by D. A. Wheeler (pp. 283 – 289)
• Short Communications
  • White-tailed Eagle – two more records for Northumberland by P. A. Cottam (pp. 291 – 293)

 

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