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JOURNAL OF THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION, 



GSNSRAL FIELD GLUB RECORD. 



NEW SERIES 



Edited by Chas. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., and G. T. Porritt, F.L.S. 



No. LIV. 



JANUARY, 1880. 



VOL. V. 



CONTENTS. 



Obtginal Aeticles, &c. : — 



Bryological Notes. — New British Species. — Rev. J. Ferpusson.... 



Note on the Antiquity of some Species of Musci. — C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S. ... 



The Hymenoptera of Lancashire and Cheshire.— (Concluded). — Benj. Cooke... 

 Notes on some Varieties of Birds. — Alfred Beaumont ... ... 



Notes on Birds observed in Dutch Brabant. — Wm. Eagle Clarke 



Rainfall for November ... ... 



Temperature at Huddersfield. — Jas. Firth ... 



Notes, &c. : — . ' 



On some causes which seem to operate in the production of varieties in 



Lepidoptera. — S. D. Bairstow 



Podiceps minor at Sheffield. ^ — E. Howarth ... 

 Arachnidce near Selby.— CAas. Sinethurst ... 

 Co?eop^era near Leeds. — ,, 

 Mr. A. Bennett's Flora of Surrey.— Eds. If at. 



Reports of Societies : — 



Barnsley Naturalists' , 



Bradford „ '■ 

 Dewsbury ... ... 



EUand-cum-Greetland Naturalists' 

 Leeds Naturalists' Club 

 Manchester Cryptogamic ... 

 . York and District Field Naturalists' 



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