NOV. 1917. 



No. 730 



(No. 505 of current tariet) 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND 



T. SHEPPARD, 



BDITBD BV 



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



The Museums, Hull ; 



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



Technical College, Huddersfield. 

 with the assistance as referees in special departmen 

 J. OILBBRT BAKER, P.R.S. P.L.S., GEO. T. PORRITI", /F.L.Sj.i |Pl 



Prof. P. P. KENDALL, M.Sc, P.Q.S., JOHN W. TAYLOR.lM.Sc.U ^ 



RILEY FORTUNE. F.Z.S. 



H.S. 



Contents : — 



PAGE 



Notes and Comments (illustrated): — Biology of Waterworks ; Fauna and Flora of Water 

 Pipes; Botanical Society and Exchange Club ; Geoteresy ; The Prevalence of Anophe- 

 lines ; Records ; Identification ; Phenological Observations ; The Antler Moth in York- 

 shire ; The Great Auk ; Science Teaching in Secondary Schools ; Science and Scientific 

 Method ; Scientific History ; Science Courses ; A Boy's Education ; Other Schemes ; 

 The Interglacial Problem ; The Kirmington Deposit ; Correlation of Deposits ; Plant 

 Diseases in Muf.ums 337-346 



347-348 



349-352 



353-356 



357-358 



359 



359-360 



361-363 



Notes on the Flora of Rlbble -Craven— Joseph Fry Pickard 



Sphagna — Wm. Ingham, B. A. 



Old Natural History Magazines, etc.— T. Sheppard, M.Sc, F.G.S 



Cumberland Dragonflies — F. H. Day, F.E.S. 



Prehistoric Remains at Doncaster— A . Jordan 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union : Botanical Section— (.'. A. Cheetham 



In Memoriam : Robert Bralthwaite (illustrated)— R 



Field Notes: — Vitrea lucida at Louth, Lines.; Unusual Sites of Starlings' Nests; Records 

 of two rare Wasp-Galls {Cynipidce) from Yorkshire ; Galls of the Alpine Rose (Rhododen- 

 dron fcrnigineutii) ; Lepidoptera at Louth ; Chsrocampa celerio at Scarborough ; Gonatopus 

 pedestris Dalm., in Cumberland; Hedge Bedstraw in Wharf edale ; Starlings and Berries ; 

 Fowls and Aeroplanes ; Starling v. Blackbird ; Varieties of the Starling ; Blackbird Sing- 

 ing in Severe Winter Months; Notes on the Pied Wagtail ; Nesting of the Long-tailed 

 Titmouse in Upper Wharfedale 358,360,364-367 



News Irom the Magazines 368 



Northern News 348,367,368 



Illustrations 



337, 340, 341, 343, 361 



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