

DEC. 1917. 



No. 731 



(No. 506 of current uriet! 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND, 



EDITED BY 



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



The Museums, Hull ; 



AND 



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



Technical College, Huddersfield. ^<rT^ tn i,, . 



WITH THE ASSISTANCE AS REFEREES IN SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS OF 



J. GILBERT BAKER, P.R.S. F.L.S., (JEO. T. PORRITT, P.L.S.. P.E.S., 



Prof. P. P. KENDALL, M.Sc. P.Q.S., JOHN W. TAYLOR, M.Sc., \ 



RILEY FORTUNE, F.Z.S. 



T. SHEPPARD, 



T. W. 



Contents : — 



Notes and Comments (illustrated):— Primitive Man; Unwritten History; The Piltdown 

 Man ; Manchester Geological and Mining Society ; The Ingleton Slates; Studies in Edrio- 

 asteroidea ; Science Progress ; Huddersfield Naturalists ; Bedfordshire ; Prehistoric 

 Society of East Anglia ; Other Papers ; Monograph of Mollusca ; Portraits ; The Museum ; 

 Future Museums ; Architects and Museums ; Types of Museums ; Modern Man and his 

 Forerunners ; Extinct Forms ; A Conclusion ; Lancashire and Cheshire Entomologists ; 

 From the Beeeh Woods ; The Writing on the Tree 



369-378 

 379-386 

 387-391 

 392-397 



The Colonist- Alien Heron-Bills of Yorkshire— F. Arnold Lees, M. R.C.S.Eng., etc. 



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



Sphagna — Win. Ingham, B. A. 



Field Notes:— Pied Wagtails, etc., on Migration ; Breeding of the Long-tailed Tit in Aire- 

 dale; Analysis of Water from Manvers Main Colliery, Wath, near Rotherham ; Sphinx 

 convolvuli in the Scarborough District in the Autumn of 1917 ; Prehistoric Remains at 

 Doncaster 391, 398-399 



Reviews and Book Notices 



News from the Magazines 



Northern News 



Illustrations 



Title = Page, List of Contributors, and Index to this Yolume. 



397, 399 

 400 

 400 

 374 



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