MARCH 19 18. 



No. 734 



(No. 508 0/ turrtnt uritm 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED ,BY 



M.Sc, F.G.3.. F.R.Q.S 



Thr Museums,/Hull ; 



AND • 



WOODHEAD, Ph.D. 



Technical College, Huddersf^eld 

 with the assistance as referees in spbcia! 

 J. aiLBBRT BAKBR. P.R.S. P.L.S., QEO. T. 



Prof. P. P. KBNDALL, M.Sc. P.Q.S., JQHN W. 



RILBY PORTUNE. P.Z.S 



T. SMEPPARD, 



T. W. 



F. S.A.Scot.. 



Contents ; — 



' PAQB 



Notes and Comments (illustrated): — G. W. LampIugh,-FrR.S. ; Liverpool Botanists; The 

 Hedgehog, of two kinds ; Ancient Natural History ; Hedgehog without Spines ; Sands 

 and Rocks used in Glass Manufacture ; Author's Reprints ; Microscopic Section of Coal 

 Seam ; Peat Problems ; Light and Phototropism ; Physico-Cheniical Activities ; Spore 

 Coloration in the Agaricaceae ; Tabulating Habitats ; X-Rays and Foraminifera ; Rotalia 

 dubia; Skiagraphs of Foraminifera ; Nummulites, etc 81-88 



A Ploral Film of 1831— £. G. Bayford, F.E.S. ; annotated by F. A. Lees, M.R.C.s. ... 89-92 



Romance of the Cuckoo— £. P. BM^^r^e/rf 93-96 



Yorkshire Entomology in 1917 — E. Motley 97-98 



Yorkshire Coleoptera in 1917— W./.ForrfAflw, JW.i?.C.S., L.ie.C. P., F.JS.S 99-102 



An Addition to the British Lichen-Flora— i?ev. W.Johnson 103 



In Memorlam:— William Greenwell, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A.—T.S 104-106 



W. A. Parker, F.G.S.—r.5 106 



George Alexander Louis Lebour, M. A., D.Sc, F.G.S.—7".S. 106-107 



Matthew B. Slater, F.L.S.—r.S 108-109 



Field Notes:— Cumberland Hemiptera-Heteroptera ; Water-Vole and Hedgehog ; Separa- 

 tion of the Sexes of the Chaffinch in Winter ; Status of the Pied Wagtail in Winter in the 

 Wilsden District 



Proceedings of Provincial Scientific Societies 



Northern News 



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