AUG. 1918. 



No. 739 



(N», S13 •/ ourrtnt frit*. 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



T. SMEPPARD, M.Sc, F.Q.S., F.R.O.S., 



The Museums, Hull ; 



AND 



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



Technical College, Huddersfield. 

 with the assistance as referees in special departments^ 

 J. QILBBRT BAKBR, P.R.S. P.L.S., QEO. T. PORRITF, P.L7^J!i[«dif§.,l^ai'^'^ 



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



RILEY FORTUNE. F.Z.S. 



Contents : — 



PAOB 



Notes and Comments (illustrated) : — The Whitby Museum ; An Aviator ; Martin Simpson ; 



The Museums' Association ; Local Papers ; Papers Read ; A Story : A Sheffield Effort ; 



A Circular ; The Report ; The ' Association ' (?) ; A Suggestion ; Contents of Report ; 



Conference of Delegates ; A Yorkshire Experience ; Afforestation, etc '241-2J8 



Conchological Classification, Variation and Nomenclature—/. IF. Taylor, M.Se. ... 249-25.f 



Tlie Spiders of Yorkshire— Win. Falconer 253-257 



Notes on tlie Nesting, Singing:, and some otiier Habits of tlie Common Wild 



Birds of the Scarborough District— IF. Gyngdl 258-261 



Doncaster Natural History Notes for 1917—//. H.Corbett 262-263 



Yorkshire Naturalists at Market Weighton—H'.£./..tr 264-26(> 



Field Notes: — A Corncrake Puzzle; The Bempton Peregrines; Mason Bee r.t Whitby; 

 Mutilia eutofcca ; Food of the Tawny Owl ; Goldcrests iRcgulus regulus) in the Lake 

 District ; Greater Spotted Woodpecker {Dryobates major) in Westmorland ; Cucullia 

 vtrbasci at Huddersfield; Euthciiionia russula near Skipton ; Coretlira pallida, etc., in 

 Yorkshire ; The Pairing of the Genus Hepialus ; Palmated Newt {Molge palviata) in 

 ■ Westmorland; Po/)'/>oy»s i?os/Aovu in S.E. Yorkshire 252,257,266-270 



Correspondence: — The Cuckoo twice making use of ihe same Nest ; The late G. Knott ... 271 



Reviews and Book Notices 263, 270 



Northern News 271, 272 



News from the Magazines 261, 272 



Illustrations 241,242 



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