FEBRUARY, 1914 
No. 685 
(No. 462 of current series). 
A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 
NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 
EDITED BY 
T. SHEPPARD, F.Q.S., F.R.G.S., F.S.A.Scot., 
■ The Museums, Hull ; 
AND 
T. W. WOODHEAD, Ph.D., F.L.S., 
Technical College, Huddersfield. 
WITH THE ASSISTANCE AS REFEREES IN SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS OF 
J. OILBERT BAKER, F.R.S. F.L.S., (JEO. T. PORRITI", F.L.S., F.E.S 
Prof. P. F. KENDALL, M.Sc., F.O.S., JOHN W. TAYLOR, 
T. H. NELSON, M.B.O.U., WILLIAM WEST, F.L.S., 
RILEY FORTUNE, F.Z.S. 
Contents : — 
PAGE 
Notes and Comments:— The Cambridge Shilling Manuals ; TheGannet ; The York Museum : 
A New ‘ Zittel ' ; The Piltdown Skull; Recent Work; The Gravel Floor: Cranium of 
Eoanthropus; Prof. Elliot Smith; Prof. A. Keith ; Prof. A. S. Underwood ; Our Common 
Sea-Birds; Northumberland; Liverpool Biologists 41-4C 
The Evolution of the Basidiomycetes — G. Massee, F.L.S., V.M.H 47-50 
Coleoptera in Yorkshire in 1913 — A. G. Bayford, F.E.S 51-54 
Laseola erythropus Sim., with a Key to the British Laseolae — Win. Falconer 55-50 
The Fungus Flora of the Mulgrave District — C. Crossland ... ... 60-60 
Field Notes: — Decrease in Starlings at Harrogate; Waxwings at Whitby; Starling 
Migration ; Nesting of the Waterhen ; Bird Notes from Hebden Bridge: Coltas edusa in 
Lincolnshire 67-59 
Reviews and Book Notices 50, 59, CO, 70, 71 
News from the Magazines 54, 69 
Correspondence 72 
Illustrations 46, 70 
Plates l.-V. 
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