JUNE 1917. 



No. 725 



(No. 501 of current t9rie$) 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BV 



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



The Museums, Hull ; 



AND 



T. W. WOODHEAD, Ph.D., M.Sc, F.I/ 



Technical College, Huddersfield. 

 with the assistance as referees in special departments olj u in >v ' 

 J. QILBERT BAKER, P.R.S. P.L.S., GEO. T. PORR1TT, P^L.S., P.B.S., 



JOHN W. TAYLOR, M>^k tv 



Prof. P. P. KENDALL, M.Sc, F.Q.S., 



RILEY FORTUNE, F.Z.S. 



!?n«l M« 



Contents : — 



PASS 



Notes and Comments (illustrated):— Rev. O. Pickard Cambridge; Wierd Winds; The 

 Vasculum ; A Coalfield in the Fenland ; The Supply of Iron Ore ; Geological Photographs ; 

 The Scarborough Bronze Axes ; Yorkshire Antiquities ; Lancashire and Cheshire Ento- 

 mologists ; Aclisina; Microscopic Material of the Bunter ; A New Russian Magazine; 

 Leeds Conchologists and the War ; Irish Shells ; Mosquitoes, Bug», and Spiders ; King 

 of Fishers " 117-184 



Economic Mycology : The Beneficial and Injurious Influences of Fungi— II'. Y. 



Cheesman,J.P.,F.L.S 185-200 



Notes on Plaaorbis and Margaritana in Iceland— Hans Schlesch 201 



In Memoriam: W. Barwell Turner (illustrated)— R 202 20", 



William Foggitt, J. P., F.L.S. (illustrated) 205-206 



Field Notes:— Mycology at Buckden ; Athcta britteni Joy, in East Yorks. 

 Gulls 



Northern News 



Review 



News from the Magazines 



Illustrations 



The Storm and 



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184,200. 204. 206 

 207 



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177. 202, 203, 20fJ 



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