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The folded knoll beds of the railway cutting were casually 
examined, and then the party proceeded to Linton, to walk — 
along the line of the Craven Fault in the direction of Burnsall. 
The evidence of the fault was pointed out, and the party spent 
some time in examining the folded beds near to Burnsall, 
those of Loup Scar especially attracting attention. He then 
gave some account of the relation of the Wharfe Valley to the 
Craven Fault and to the limestone and grit hills in the neigh- 
bourhood. W.E.L.W. 
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Wild Birds through the Year. George A. B. Dewar. Herbert Jenkins, 
Ltd., London, 248 pp., price 5s. This is not, as one might imagine from the 
title, a diary of happenings in the bird world through the different seasons 
of the year, but a medley of delightfully written essays upon different 
phrases of bird life. All of them are good and show that the author is a 
keen and accurate observer. He is strong in his condemnation of the 
collector of rare eggs and the following remarks, referring particularly 
to the New Forest, are worthy of specialattention. ‘ The rare-egg collector 
is the enemy of all who care for the forest. He is a child who never grows 
up, a child of constant mischief. I say deliberately that any man who 
buys for his collection an English specimen of a buzzard’s or honey buz- 
zard’s egg, acts against the public interest. It is a graceless traffic.’ 
These remarks may well be applied, not only to the New Forest, but to 
the whole of the British Islands, and to very many more species in addition 
to the Buzzard’s. The author overlooks the fact that there are breeding 
places of the Gannet, off the British Coast, other than the West Coast of 
Scotland and the Bass.—R. F. 
A Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Northumberland, Durham, and 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. By John E. Robson, F.E.S. Edited by John 
Gardner, F.E.S. After considerable but unavoidable delay, the last part 
of this Catalogue is before us. The delay has been occasioned by the 
death of the late J. E. Robson, after which Mr. Eustace R. Bankes under- 
took to edit and see the part through the press. Then unfortunately 
Mr. Bankes fell ill, and finding no chance of immediate improvement, after 
having had Mr. Robson’s manuscript in his possession for nearly three 
years, requested the Council of the Northumberland Society (under whose 
auspices all the catalogue has been published) to relieve him of his promise. 
Mr. John Gardner was then requested to finish the work, and right well 
he has done it. As Mr. Bankes had made critical notes upon the whole 
of the manuscript, it goes without saying that everything in the Part 
may be regarded as absolutely reliable. The Part deals with the Tineina 
and Pterophorina, the latter order entirely by, Mr. Gardner, as Mr. Robson 
had left no notes on the group. At the end of the Part a short supple- 
ment by the Editor is given, containing the additional species and records 
made since the catalogue was commenced, and bringing the list up to: 
the present date. In the introduction we are told that the total number 
of species for the area included is 1,169 or 56.7 per cent. of the known 
British Species, as against 66-9 per cent. recorded for Yorkshire. As. 
the area of Yorkshire is double that of Northumberland and Durham, 
this is regarded as highly satisfactory. As we have said the editing has 
been exceedingly well done, and although much of the text is admittedly 
the work of Mr. Bankes, it reflects the greatest credit on the late J. E. 
Robson, Mr. Gardner, and the Northumberland and Durham Society. 
Tt is indeed a good deal more than a Catalogue, for the critical and lengthy 
notes on many of the species (as for instance those on Solenobia clathrella) 
are most interesting and valuable. A very good photograph of J. E. Robson 
forms a fitting and appropriate frontispiece to the work.—G.T.P. 
Naturalist, 
