7 SEP 1901 



SEPTEMBER 1901. 



(Published 2nd September 1901). 



No. 536. 



( No. 314 of current series.) 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENQLA 



EDITED BY 



WM. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S., 



259, Hyde Park Road, Leeds; 

 with The assistance in special departments ok 

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

 W. EAGLE CLARKE, F.L.S., M.B.O.U., GEO. T. PORRITT, F.L.S., F.E.S., 

 ALFRED HARKER! M.A., F.G.S., JOHN W. TAYLOR, F.L.S., 



CHAS. P. HOBKIRK, F.L.S., . W. B. TURNER, F.R.M.S. 



Contents: — 



Naturalists in South Lincolnshire (Illustrated)—/?^-. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock , 



l.tju,f.l.s.;f.g.s. .. 



In Memoriam: William Hodgson, A.L.S. (Illustrated)— WiUiam Thomson 



Peucedanum palustre in Lake Lancashire— Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. 



Lincolnshire Spiders— Arthtir Smith 



Notes on Birds: — Nightjar, etc., near Halifax — Harold Pickles, 266; Blue-pen: a 

 Halifax Dialect Expression — Charles Crossland, F.L.S. , 266; Holderness Bird- 

 Notes, May 190* — T. Fetch; B.Sc., B.A., 266 ; Audacity of Lincolnshire Rooks — 

 Rev. E. A. Woodmffe-Peacock, L. Th., F.L.S., F.G.S., 266. 



Notes on Lepidoptera : — Argvnnis adippe and Dryas paphia near Doncaster — H. H. 



Corbett, M.R.C.S., 288: Acherontia atropos at Doncaster—^. H. Corbett, 

 • M.R.C.S., 288; Actebia praecox near Frodingham, Lines. — H. H. Corbett, 

 M.R.C.S., 288; Sphinx convolvuli in Leeds - W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., 288; 

 Sphinx convolvuli near Boston, North Lincolnshire — Rev. Alfred Thortdey, 

 M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., 288; Sphinx convolvuli near Boston, Lines.— Mrs. 

 Disbrotve, 288. 



Note on Spiders : — Northumbrian Spiders in 1900 — William Falconer, 288. 



Notes on Flowering Plants : — Scirpus tabernaemontani at Askern, Yorks. S.W. — 

 H. H. Corbett, M.R.C.S., 268; Plant-Names near Huddersfield : ' Mother Die,' 

 etc. — W. E. L. Wattam, 268; Viola tricolor in the North Riding- of Yorkshire in 

 1685— -V. L. Petty, 268. 



Note on Meteorology : — Occurrence of Snow every Month in England — F. M. 



Burton, F.L.S., F.G.S., 260. 

 fllustrations : — Diagrammatic Sketch, illustrating the boundary between the Middle 



and Lower Lias, 258: Portrait of the late William Hodgson, A,L.S., 262. 



237-260 

 261-263 

 267-268 

 269-287 



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