SEPT. 1917. 



No. 728 



(No. 504 of current tarUt) 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND 



T. SHEPPARD, 



EDITED BV 



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



The Museums, Hull ; 



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



Technical College, Huddersfield. 

 with the assistance as referees in special def 

 J. GILBERT BAKER, P.R.S. P.L.S., GEO. T. POR 



Prof. P. P. KENDALL, M.Sc, F.Q.S., JOHN W. T. 



RILEY FORTUNE, F.Z.S 



F.L.S. 



Contents :■ 



P.L.S., P.R.S., 

 LOR, M.Sc, 



JUN 2 4 1920 



Notes and Comments (illustrated):— Fossil Plants; Jurassic Plants; Ducks and Plant 

 Dispersal; A Globular Springtail ; Birmingham Naturalists; A Rare Hymenopteron ; 

 Refractory Materials; Yorkshire Naturalists' Union ; Nutritive Value of Edible Fungi ;' 

 Bristol Naturalists ; The Neglect of Science ; The Need for Science in Education ; The 

 Life of Nature ; The Green Woodpecker ' 273-28u 



A Rare Type of Bronze-Age Weapon from Lincolnshire (illustrated)— T. Sluppard, 



M.Sc.,F.G.S 281-282 



More Bronze-Age Relics from Scarborough (illustrated)— T. Sheppard, M.Sc, F.G.S. 283-284 



The Mosses and Hepatlcs of Denbighshire— I). A. Jones 285-292 



The Geographical Distribution of Moths of the Sub-Family Bistoninae— /. II'. 



Heslop Harrison, D.Sc 293-296 



Notes on the Slugs and Land Shells of Iceland — Hans Schlcscli 297 300 



Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Turslops tursio) caught off Walney Island—//. B. Booth 



M.B.O.U., F.Z.S ' ... 300-301 



Field Notes 



Nottinghamshire 



Reviews and Book Notices 

 News from the Magazines 



Camberwell Beauty near Bradford ; Discovery of Hygmmia striolata in 



301 



301-303 



296, 303, 304 



Northern News 



Proceedings of Provincial Scientific Societies 

 Illustrations 



284,303 



303 



.. 273, 274, 375, 276, 282, 283 



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