JAN. 1918. 



No. 732 



(No. SO? 0/ current 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE * NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



T. SHEPPARD, 



BDITBD BV 



M.Sc, F.Q.S., F.R.Q.S., F.S.A.Scot, 



Thk Museums, Hull ; 



T. W. WOODHEAD, Ph.D., M.Sc. F.L.S. 



Technical College, Huddersfield 



WITH THK assistance AS REFEREES IN SPECIAL DEPARTMENlS ,01. 



J. OILBBRT BAKBR, P.R.S. P.L.S., QRO. T. PORRIT] 



Prof. P. P. KENDALL, M.Sc. P.fl.S.. JOHN W. TAYI 



RILBY FORTUNE. F.Z.S. 



P.L.S.. f-\K.S. 



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Contents 



f»i.»t: lA. 



Notes and Comments :— Sperm Whales (illustrated) ; Martin Simpson ; Vorkshire Scien- 

 titic Societies; The Shap Minor Intrusions; Sir Archibald Geikie ; Black PupaB of 

 Abraxa% gro^sulariata ; Roman Piercebridge ; Prehistoric Remains; The Geology of^ 

 Bournemouth; Lincoln Naturalists ; Fairies or Beer ? ; Boomerang 1 ricks 1-6 



A Yorkshire Rector of the Eis:hteenth Century— Sir Arcihhald Geikie, OM., K.C.B., 



F.R.S., D.C.L 7-24 



Helix cartuslaaa and Helix syrlaca : Their Relationship and its Probable 



Significance—/. W. Taylor, M.Sc 35-26 



Hemlptera-Heteroptera of West Cumberland— /as. Murray 27-28 



Yorkshire Naturalists at Wakefield— PF. £. Z,. IV 29 31 



Field Notes: — Thrush Feeding on Ltm»iira sfag'/ia/is ; Bean Geese as ' Gabriel's Hounds' ; 

 Tree Sparrow near Sheffield ; A Large Flock of Magpies ; Nierembergia gracilts and 

 Sisymbrium a/<(sjii««;n at Theddlethorpe Sandhills; Prehistoric Remains at Poncaster ; 

 Helicella gigaxii in Lincolnshire ; Nuthatch near Louth ; Common Puffin caught alive at 

 CuUingworth 24,26.28,32 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union's Report for 1917 . . 33-47 



Northern News SL.sa 



News from the Magazines 48 



Illustration 1 



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