FEBRUARY 1906. 



No. 589 



(No. 367 of current series) 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



f. SHEPPARD, F.Q.S., 



The Museum, Hull ; 



AND 



T. W. WOODHEAD, F.L.S., 



Technical College, Huddersfield ; 



WITH THE ASSISTANC 



f^J. GILBERT BAKER 

 (vrof. P. F. KENDALL 

 T-. H. NELSON, M.B.O.U., 



ASSISTANCE. AS REFEREES IN SPECIAL D 



, F.R.S, A..S., GEO. T. PO 



L, M.Sc, F.G.S., JOHN W. T 



EPARTMENTS OF 



PORRITT, F.L.S., F.E.S., 

 TAYLOR, 

 WILLIAM WEST, F.L.5. 



Contents ;— 



Notes and Comments (Illustrated) : —Shapes of British Skulls, The Origin of Early 



Yorkshiremen, Strange Habitats for Fungi, Pot-holing, Lancashire Paleontology 

 Lincolnshire Freshwater Mites (Illustrated)— C. F. George, M.R.C.S. 



Yorkshire Lepidoptera in 1905 



The Birds of North-West LinAsey~Max Peaccck 



Notes on Lepidopterous Yariation in the Skelmanthorpe District- 

 Birds etc., u.sed for Food in the Sixteenth Century 



Yorkshire Naturalists at Bradford 



Field Notes 



Reviews and Book Notices (Illustrated) ... 



Northern News 



Illustrations 



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