Excerpt from The Naturalist, 1903: A Monthly Journal of Natural History for the North of England Special efforts have been made to enhance the value of the journal and sustain the interest Of our readers by considerably increasing the number of illustrations. Whilst feeling assured of their appreciation, we must admit that the cost has been a tax on our resources. We wish, however, to gratefully acknowledge the generous aid in this direction both by contributors and subscribers, without which the journal would have materially suffered. Everything has been done to publish the reports Of the Yorkshire Naturalists Union Field Meetings, etc., as promptly as possible. Whilst it would be invidious to mention any particular paper in the Volume, we should like to make special reference to the contributions by Dr. Wm. G. Smith, on the Study of Plant Associations, which have been so widely read and favourably commented upon both at home and abroad. We have already had evidence that much work is now being done on the lines suggested by Dr. Smith in these pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.