JUNE 1918. 



No. 737 



(No, 511 of currant torln. 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



T. SHEPPARD, M.Sc, F.Q.S.. F.R.Q.S.. F.S.A.Scot. 



The Museums, Hull ; 



AND 



T. W. WOODHEAD, Ph.D., M.Sc, F./l.S 



Technical College, Huddersfield. 

 with the assistance as referees in special departmen 

 J. aiLBBRT BAKBR, P.R.S. P.L.S., QEO. T. PORRITF, P. 



Prof. P. P. KBNDALL, M.Sc. P.fl.S., JOHN W. TAYLOR, M.ScTT 



RILEY PORTUNB. P.Z.S. 



Contents :■ 



Notes and Comments: — Museums and Learning; Labelling; Classification; Catalogues; 

 Publicity; A Voracious Marine Pest ; The Mortimer Collection ; Ammonite Nomenclature ; 

 New Genera ; Mr. S. S. Buckman's opinion; The Field Geologist ; The Glacial Period; 

 The Glacial Question; Deep Gorges; Interglacial Conditions; One Ice Age ; Balby 

 Boulder Clay 177-184 



Apterygota from Derbyshire and Yorkshire— /a»«es Meikle Brown, B.Sc, F.L.S., F.C.S. 185-187 



Astatus stigma Panz. in \ork.aMrt— W.J. Fordham, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.E.S. ... 188 



Westmorland Coleoptera—F. H. Daj, F.E.S 189-191 



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



Hcslop Harrison, D.Sc 192-194 



The Spiders of Yorkshire— l^m. Falconer 195-197 



Bibiioeraphy:— Papers and Records relating to the Geology and Palaeontology of the North 



of England (Yorkshire excepted) published during lill—T.^Shcppard, M.Sc, F.G.S. ... 198 201 



Pleld Notes: — Nidification of the Spotted Flycatcher; Fatality to a Sparrowhawk; Varia- 

 tion of the Colour of Sparrows' Eggs (illustrated) ; Bitterns in the West ; Cirl Bunting, 

 etc., near Whitby; Jackdaws i/. Starlings; Lancashire and Cheshire Entomology ; Fungi 

 of the Don District 184,202-204 



Cuckoos' Eggs— E. E. Pettitt 204 



Northern News £04 



Reviews and Book Notices 205-207 



Proceedings of Provincial Scientific Societies 207 



News from the Magazines 208 



Illustration 202 



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