APRIL 1917. 



No. 723 



(No. 499 of current atriet) 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND 



EDITED BY 



T. SHEPPARD, M.Sc, F.Q.S., F.R.CLS., F.$. 



The Museums, Hull ; 



AND 



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



Technical College, Huddersfield, 

 with the assistance as referees in special departments of 

 J. OILBBRT BAKER, P.R.S. P.L.S., GEO. T. PORRITT, F.L.S.. P.K.S. 



Prof. P. P. KENDALL, M.Sc. F.O.S.. JOHN W. TAYLOR. M.Sc, 



RILEY FORTUNE, F.Z.S. 



Contents : — 



PAGK 



Notes and Comments (illustrated) :— A Yorkshire Flood; Other Yorkshire Floods; The 

 Bilberry Reservoir; Bird ' Stuffers' v. Taxidermists ; The Size of Cases; Classification ; 

 Hair Cut and Birds Stuffed ; Sieglingia decumbens ; Science Progress ; The Piltdown Jaw ; 



Another Eoantltropus dawsoni; Details of the New Discovery ; Parka decipiens .' 113-118 



The Mosses and Liverworts of an Industrial City (illustrated)— W. H. Burrell, F.L.S. 119-124 



Cleveland Hymenoptera— J. W. Heslop Harrison, M.Sc 125-126 



Observations on Ranunculus Ficaria— Mary A. Johnstone, B.Sc. F./..S 127-129 



Yorkshire Mycologists at Buckden — A. E. Peck 130-132 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union : Vertebrate Section— W . Greaves ... 132-134 



The Shells of the Holderness Basement Clays— Alfred Bell 135-138 



In Memoriam (illustrated) :— George Massee, F.L.S , V.M.H. —T.S 139-142 



R. H. Tiddeman, M.A., F.G.S.— T.S 142-143 



Field Notes : — Bird Notes from the Huddersfield District 124 



Reviews and Book Notices ' 129 



Northern News 134 



News from the Magazines 126,144 



Illustrations 113.119,130,143 



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