FEB. 1918. 



No. 733 



(No. 508 of current t»ri«t. 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



T. SHEPPARD, 



EDITED BV 



M.Sc, F.Q.S., F.R.Q.S. 



The Museums, Hull ; 



F.S.A.Scat. 



T. W. WOODHEAD, Ph.D., M.Sc, 



Technical College, Huddersfield. 



WITH THE assistance AS REFEREES IN SPECIAL DEPARTMENT: 



J. QILBBRT BAKBR, P.R.S. P.L.S., GEO. T. PORRITF, 



Prof. P. P. KENDALL, M.Sc. P.Q.S., JOHN W. TAYLOR, JM 



RILEY FORTUNE. F.Z.S. 



Contents : — 



Notes and Comments (illustrated): — Louvain and London; The British Museum ; Ignor- 

 ance; Bombs; Protests; Lord Sudeley ; Lord Curzon ; The Natural History Museum ; 

 The Trustees ; Letters to the Press ; The Museums Association ; Sir Henry H. Howorth ; 

 The Science Museum ; Sorby Scientific Society ; Northumberland Fishes ; Lancashire 

 and Cheshire Entomologists; The South Eastern Naturalist; The Library; Jaws of 

 Ancient Men; Handbook of Regional Geology ; Famous Yorkshire Botanists ; London 

 Naturalists; Manchester Microscopists ; Sir Archibald Geikie ; Heterangiums of the 

 British Coal Measures ; Herefordshire Naturalists ; Liverpool Biologists 49-58 



Implements of the Bronze Age in the Whitby Museum -T. Sheppanl, M.Sc, F.G.S. 59-61 



Mycetozoa of the Austwick District — A. R. Sanderson 62-65- 



Mepatics of Denbighshire^-IFoi. Hy. Pearson 66-G7 



The Geographical Distribution of Moths of the Sub-family Bistoninae-/. ^Y . 



Heslop Harrison, B.Sc 68-72 



Cumberland Coleoptera in igiy— F. H . Day, F.ES 73.74 



Field Notes : — Coleoptera Notes from Huddersfield ; ' Brent Geese ' or ' Gabriel's Hounds' ; 

 Separation of the Sexes of the Chafilnch in Winter ; Long-Eared Owl Nesting on the 

 Ground ; Curious Behaviour of a Pair of Song Thrushes (Turcius inusicus) ; Scarcity of 

 the Bulfinch in Upper Airedale ; Pied Wagtails in Winter and on Migration in the Brad- 

 ford District ; Paluciestriiia mimtta in Lines. ; Agrotis obscnra Brahm. {ravida Hb.) at 

 Biibwith; Homoptera of West Cumberland 67, 75-79' 



Reviews and Book Notices 61 



Northern News 65,79 



News from the Magazines 74, 79, 80 



Illustrations 57, 58 



Plates l.>ll. 



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