SEPT. 1921. 



No. 776 



No. SSO of current Series 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



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



The Museums, Hull ; 

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



Technical College, Huddersfield. 

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Contents s- 



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Notes and Comments (illustrated) : — Museums in the Present and 

 Future ; Sir Hercules Read's Address ; British Mammals ; Traus- 

 stedtia multitentaculata ; Earthquakes ; Birds as Parents ; Charles 

 Lapworth ; A ' B. F.' on Museums ; Museums an ' Excuse ' ; 

 ^luseums a Luxury ; The Leicester Museum ; Another Librarian's 

 View ; The Leeds Museum ; Municipal Museum for Darlington ; 

 The Scarcity of Swallows ; Cup and Ring Markings ; Bureau of 

 Bio -Technology ; Batley Pests ; Ambleside Birds ; \\'hales ; The 

 British Museum ; The Abbeville Jaw ; Fossil Man ; Prehistory ; 

 The Earthworks of Bedfordshire ; Northern Guides ; Collecting ; 

 Pala?ontographical Society 



Sex Habits of the Great Crested Grebe — Edmund Selous 



In Memoriam — George Frederick Wright — T.S. ... 



Yorkshire Naturalists at Wentworth — F . A . Mason and W . H . Pearsall, 

 D.Sc 



Yorkshire Naturalists at Redcar — F. A. Mason, F.R.M.S. ... 



The Spiders of Yorkshire — Wni. Falconer, F.E.S. 



Field Notes : — Early Arrival of the Swift ; Early Arrival of the Cuckoo ; 

 Fulmar Petrels at the Fame Islands ; Short-eared Owl and Crossbill 

 in the West Riding ; Food of the Wild Rabbit... 



Glaciation of the South Downs — C.N.B. 



Reviews and Book Notices ... 



Northern News 



Illustrations 



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313-316 



... 317-31S 



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305. 318, 320 



... 290, 291 



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