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NOV. 1921. 



No. 778 



No. 552 of current Series 



THE 



A MONTHLY ILL^T^f Ep4Jt83JNAC)oF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOB THE NORTH OFyENGLAND. 



rTF. S.A.Scot., 



T. SHEPPARD, M.Sc, F.G7" 



The Museums, Hull ; 

 AND 



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



Technical College, Huddersfield, 

 WITH THE ASSISTANCE AS REFEREES IN SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS OF 



G. T, PORRITT, F.L.S., F.E.S. 

 JOHN W. TAYLOR, M.Sc. RILEY FORTUNE, F.Z.S 



Contents s— 



Notes and Comments (illustrated) : — The British Association ; Joint 

 Discussions ; The Handbook ; Other Literature ; The Advancement 

 of Science, 1921 ; Zoological Bibliography ; Number of Sections ; A 

 Geological Society's Medal ; Ancient Anemones ; Huddersfield Mus- 

 eum ; Recording Sections in Gravels ; Natural History in ' Arms ' ; 

 Birds and Forestry ; Manx Mines and Megaliths ; A Mammoth 

 Story ; Printing Costs Crippling Research ; Classes which have no 

 War Profits 



Yorkshire Bats (illustrated)—//. B. Booth, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



Vegetation of Drying Mud and Retarded Germination — E. J. 

 Salisbury, D.Sc, F.L.S. ... 



' Burnets' of Filey, Yorks. — H. Douglas Smart, M.C., M.D., F.E.S.... 



A New British Flowering Plant, Tillaea aquatica L. (illustrated) — 

 R. W. Butcher 



Distribution of Certain Elements of the British Flora — /. R. 

 Matthews, M.A 



Field Notes : — White Wagtails in Yoi-ks. ; Short-eared Owl and Crossbill 

 in the West Riding ; Spotted Crake near Whitby ; Meta menardi in 

 Kirkdale Cave ; White Kittiwake at Bridlington ; Yorkshire Fishes ; 

 Common Rorqual at Scarborough ; Calopteryx virgo Linn, in 

 Cumberland; Diotis maritima in Scilly Isles ... ... 360, 364, 



In Memoriam (illus.) :— J. Arnold Lees, M.R.C.S. ... 



John Gardner, F.E.S. — T. A. Lofthouse 



Yorkshire Naturalists at York— F. A. Mason, F.R.M.S. and IV. H. 

 Pearsall, D.Sc. 



British Association Notes and News 



Correspondence : — Arennria gothica Fr. 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union : — Geology 

 at Robin Hood's Bay and Scarborough 



News from the Magazines ... 



Book Notice ... ... 



Northern News 



Illustrations 



Marine Biology Committee 

 375. 380, 382, 



378, 



yo(i, 358, 361. 



353-360 

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369-370 

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