»/i A\r NO. 724 



MAY 1917. ' ^ 



(No. 500 of current ttritt) 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND 



EDITED BY 



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



The Museums, Hull ; 



and , 



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



Technical College, Huddersfield. 

 with the assistance as referees in special departments v>f *■» u |\ 

 J. Q1LBBRT BAKER, P.R.S. P.L.S., QEO. T. PORR1TT, P.\s., P.R.S 



Prof. P. P. KENDALL, M.Sc, P.O.S., 



RILEY FORTU 



' 



JOHN W. TAYLOR, M.Sc>, 

 NE, F.Z.S. 



Contents : — 



PAGB 



Notes and Comments (illustrated) -. — Wild Life; Postponement of Excursions for 1917; 

 ' New ' British (?) Birds ! Delayed Records ; Dealers' Business Methods ; d'Orbigny ; A 

 Fisheries Museum ; Literature of British Diptera ; Report on Cetacea ; Sands for Glass 

 Making; Derbyshire Lavas ; The Oldest Flint Implements ; 'Popular' Scientific Terms ; 

 A Prehistoric War Wound ' 145-1.-0 



A Hoard of Axes, etc., of the Bronze Age, from Scarborough (illustrated)— 



1 T. Sheppard, M.Sc, FG.S 151-154 

 Some Weapons of the Bronze Age, recently found in East Yorkshire (illustrated)— 



T. Sheppard, M.Sc, 1 .G.S. 155-157 



Notes on the Wood Ant (Formica rufai—J. T . Seidell, J. P 158-159 



Yorkshire Coleoptera in 1916— W.J. Fordham, (M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.E.S. ICO 



The Geographical Distribution of Moths of the Sub-Familv Bistoninae— J. W. 



Hcslop Harrison, B.Sc 161-164 



Orobanehe reticulata Wallruth— A . Bennett 155 



Notes on Helix (Acanthioula) harpa Say, and its Distribution (illustrated)— 



Hans Schltsch 166-168 



Malacological Fauna of Halldorsstodum, North Iceland— Hans Schlesch 169 



List of Iceland Land and Fresh Water Mollusca— Hans Schlesch 169 170 



Bibliography : Papers and Records relating to the Geology and Palaeontology of the North 



of England (Yorkshire excepted), published during 191C— T. Sheppard, M.Sc, F.G.S, ... 171-17", 



Field Notes: — Birds and the Storm ; Cumberland Mosses 150,157 



Review ' 170 



Northern News 164, 168, 170, 176 



News from the Magazines 160, 175, 176 



Illustrations 145, 147, 150, 167 



Plates II., III., IV., V. 



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