NOVEMBER 1906. 



No. 598 



(No. 376 of current series). 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



T. SHEPPARD, F.G.S., 



The Museum, Hull ; 



AND 



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



Technical College, Huddersfield ; 

 with the assistance as referees in special departments of 



J. GILBERT BAKER, F.R.S. F.L.S., 

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

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



GEO. T. PORRITT, F.L.S., F.E.S. 

 JOHN W. TAYLOR, 

 WILLIAM WEST, F.L.S. 



Contents : — 



Notes and Comments (Illustrated) :— The Ladies' Slipper Orchid, Nature 

 York Philosophical Society, 'Scarboroagh : A Guide and Souvenir' ... 



The Flight of Bats— Arthur Whitaker 



Geology at the British Association—/. Lomas, F.G.S. 



Notes on Harvest=Spiders— IFi/i. Falconer 



Yorkshire Naturalists at Guisborough 



The Chemistry of Some Common Plants — P. Q. Keegan, LL.D. 

 Note on a Curious Faculty in Spiders — W. W. Strickland, B.A. 



Museum Conference at Chester 



Field Notes 



Reviews and Book Notices (illustrated) 



Museum News 



Northern News 



Illustrations 



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