JULY 1918. 



No. 738 



(No. 512 of eurrtnt itrl$i. 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NQRTH OF ENGLAND. 



T. SHEPPARD, 



EDITED BY 



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



The Museums, Hull ; 



AND /-s^"""'"" """//; 



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



Tbchnical Collsgr, Huddersfield. 



WITH THE ASSISTANCE AS REFEREES IN SPECIAL DBFARXMBNTS 



J. aiLBBRT BAKBR, P.R.S. P.L.S., QBO. T. PORRI 



Prof. P. P. KENDALL, M.Sc, P.O.S., JOHN W. TAYLOR,' 

 RILEY PORTUNB. P.Z.S. 



Contents : — 



FAaa 



Notes and Comment* :— The British Association, and its Report; Earthly v. Heavenly 



Wisdom ; Societies and their Management ; Gilbert White Societies ; The Selborne 



Society ; The Gilbert White Fellowship ; Publications ; South-Eastern Naturalists and 



their Excursions; Literature; Bulletins; Woman: Past and Present; and Man; 



Cheiranths— a Parable 209-2U 



Neolithic Settlement near Scunthorpe. Lincolnshire (illustrated)— //a> 0/1/ E. Dudley, 



Hon. Curatot, Scunthorpe Conncil Muteum 



Bronze-Age Weapons In the Doncaster Museum (illustrated)— 7". Slieppani, M.Sc 

 F.G.S 



215-218 



219-223 

 224-226 

 227-231 

 232-233 



Westmorland Coleoptera— F. //. Da>', F.£.S 



Yorkshire Naturalists at Barnard Castle— W.F.L. If 



In Memoriam:—W. Lower Carter, M. A., F.G.S. (illustrated)— r.S 



Pield Notes:— Food of Tawny Owl; Rare Ducks in Upper Nidderdale; Fieldfares near 

 Harrogate ; Pine Marten in Shropshire ; Ring Plover Nesting in Nidderdale ; Diplophyllum 

 taxifolium Wahlenb. in Westmorland ; The Pairing of Hepialus lupulinus ; Eupithecia 

 coronata at Wakefield 218, 231, 234-285 



Correspondence: — A Magpie Flock ; ' Dimorphic Coloration ' in the Cuckoo ; Cuckoos' 



Eggs; Steeton Rookeries near Keighley : Report on Egg Collecting, April 1918 236-238 



News from the Magazines 239 



Northern News 2S6, 233, 235, 238, 240 



illustrations 215,232 



Plates III., IV., v., VI. 



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