Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-Upon Tyne, 1993 – 1996

Summary

This volume includes:

Part 1

• The Pybus Memorial Lecture 1991: Ore genetics in the Northern Pennines, 1948-1990 by Kingsley Dunham, Kt., FRS (pp. 5 – 12)
• Gosforth Park Nature Reserve annual report 1991 by P. Hammock and D. C. Noble-Rollin (pp. 13 – 34)
• A small collection of fishes from Madeira Island deposited in the Hancock Museum 35 by A. J. Edwards (pp. 35 – 40)
• Quantitative sampling of Coleoptera in north-east woodlands using flight interception traps 41 by L. Jessop and P. M. Hammond (pp. 41 – 60)
• Some new occurrences of barytocalcite in the Northern Pennine orefield by B. Young (pp. 61 – 64)
• Short communication: Vivianite of post-Roman origin from Vindolanda, Northumberland 65 by R. Birley and B. Young (pp. 65 – 66)

Part 2

• The Flora of the Farne Islands by M. J. D. Hirons (pp. 69 – 114)
• Colour Plates:
  • Plate 1: Spergularia marina, Rumex acetosa, Potentilla anserina, Silene uniflora (p. 89)
  • Plate 2: Chenopodium rubrum, Chamerion angustifolium, Leymus arenarius (p. 92)
  • Plate 3: Tripleurospermum maritimum, Glaux maritima, Armeria maritima (p. 93)
  • Plate 4: Hyoscyamus niger, Senecio jacobaea, Cirsium vulgare, Taraxacum officinale (p. 96)
• Birds on the Fame Islands in 1993 compiled by J. Walton and R. Wolland (ringing report), edited by M. Patterson (pp. 115 – 133)
• The status of the Wall Brown Butterfly, Lasiommata megera, in Northumberland, 1965-91, in relation to local weather by H. A. Ellis (pp. 135 – 152)
• The flora and vegetation of magnesian limestone sea cliffs, County Durham by D. N. Mitchell, A. W. Davison and J. A. Cooke (pp. 153 – 176)

Part 3

• Annual Report 1994 (pp. 177 – 204)

Part 4

• Birds on the Farne Islands in 1994 compiled by J. Walton and R. Wolland (ringing report), edited by M. A. Patterson (pp. 205 – 224)

Part 5:

Robson’s Geology of North East England (formerly ‘The Geology of North East England’), Second Edition, edited by G. A. L. Johnson (pp. 225 – 392)

• List of Contributors (p. 227)
• List of Tables (p. 230)
• List of Illustrations (p. 231)
• Preface to the first edition (pp. 232 – 233)
• Preface to the second edition (p. 234)
• Chapter 1. Introduction by D. A. Robson and G. A. L. Johnson (pp. 237 – 244)
• Chapter 2. Lower Palaeozoic Rocks by G. A. L. Johnson (pp. 245 – 246)
• Chapter 3. Devonian or Old Red Sandstone by D. A. Robson and G. A. L. Johnson (pp. 247 – 248)
• Chapter 4. Carboniferous by G. A. L. Johnson, A. J. Heard and P. T. O’Mara (pp. 249 – 266)
• Chapter 5. Carboniferous Westphalian Coal Measures by J. M. Jones, D. Magraw and P. T. O’Mara (pp. 267 – 282)
• Chapter 6. Permian and Triassic by D. B. Smith (pp. 283 – 296)
• Chapter 7. Quaternary by A. G. Lunn (pp. 297 – 312)
• Chapter 8. Igneous Rocks (pp. 313 – 330)
• Chapter 10. Structure by B. R. Turner, D. A. Robson, W. R. Dearman, J. M. Jones, D. Magraw and F. W. Smith (pp. 331 – 343)
• Chapter 10. The Mineralisation of the Alston Block by F. W. Smith (pp. 344 – 352)
• Chapter 11. Hydrogeology by P. L. Younger (pp. 353 – 359)
• References (pp. 360 – 380)
• Index (pp. 381 – 391)

Part 6

• Annual Report 1995 (pp. 393 – 420)

Part 7

• Birds on the Farne Islands in 1995 compiled by J. Walton and R. Wolland (ringing report), edited by M. A. Patterson (pp. 393 – 414*)
  • *Erratum – The page numbers should read 421 – 442, (not 393 – 414 as shown)

 

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