MARCH, 1914 
No. 686 
(No. 4Q3 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 REFERBES IN SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS OF 
J. GILBERT BAKER, P.R.S. P.L.S., OEO. T. PORRITT, P.L.S., F.H.S 
Prol. P. P. KENDALL, M.Sc., P.G.S., JOHN W. TAYLOR, 
T. H. NELSON, M.B.O.U., WILLIAM WEST, F.L.S., 
RILEY FORTUNE, F.Z.S. 
Contents : — 
Notes and Comments (Illustrated) Old Group of Geologists; Early Flint Weapons; King- 
ing Birds in the Seventeenth Century ; Puccina malvacearum ; Variation of the Haustoria ; 
Glaciation of East Lancashire : Direction of Ice Movement ; North Sea Foraminifera : The 
Victoria History; Earthworks and Antiquities ; Early Mining; Alum and Salt: Later 
History ; Ecclesiastical Yorkshire ; Yorkshire Type Ammonites 
Clay-balls and Striated Pebbles from Bunter Sandstone, Notts. (Illustrated) 
Henry Preston, F.G.S. 
Yorkshire Arachnlda in 1912-13 — Wm. Falconer 
The Beetles of Scarborough — E. Chas. Horrell 
Ichneumonida? from Yorkshire and Lincolnshire— J. IV. Carr, M..I F.L.S 
A New Mite (Illustrated) — C. F. George, M.K.C.S 
The Lower Severn Plain during the Glacial Period— P.F.K. 
Field Notes : — Humaria Chateri (W.G.S.) Sacc., in Holderness ; Fungi found after Severe 
Frost ; Kinged Starlings at Scarborough ; Water Kail at Bridlingtonj; Waxwings in East 
Yorkshire 
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Proceedings of Provincial Scientific Societies 
News from the Magazines 
Reviews and Book Notices 
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