NOVEMBER 1914 
No. 694 
(No. 47 T of current series). 
A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 
NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 
EDITED BY 
T. SHEPPARD, F.Q.S., F.R.Q.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. GILBERT BAKER, P.R.S. P.L.S., dEO. T. PORRITT, 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 
INotesand Comments : — Presentation to Mr. C. Crossland; Museums and National Sen-ice; 
Synonymy; The Malton Museum : Yorkshire Geologists; Ravenser ; The Ripon City 
Museum 329-331 
The Nesting Season at Spurn— R. Fortune, F.Z.S 332 
OUgotrophus veatrlcolus Rubs.: A New Yorkshire Gall-Midge (Illustrated)— FerfyH. 
Grimshaw, F.R.S.E., F E.S 333-336 
"Yorkshire Natural History 200 Years Ago — T.S. „ 337-352 
Trombidium buccinator (Illustrated)— C. F. George, M.R.C.S 353 
■Field Notes: — Manx Shearwater at Halifax ; Large Yorkshire Fresh-water Fish ; Acletoxenus 
formosus Leow. in Yorkshire — an addition to the County List of Diptera : Marine Zoology 
at Blackhall Rocks, Durham 331, 354 
Ornithological Observations and Reflections in Shetland — Edmund Selous 355-357 
.Marine Biology at Whitby — Rev. F. H. Woods, B.D 358-359 
Proceedings of Provincial Scientific Societies ... 354 
Northern News 332, 336, 359 
News from the Magazines, etc 357, 360 
Illustrations 334, 353 
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