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until this period. Newman was both proprietor and editor of the new 

 venture, and its object was stated to be, " To work out the life-history 

 of all insects injurious to agriculture and horticulture, to suggest 

 remedies for their ravages, and publish full details of successful experi- 

 ments for their destruction." Special attention was given to exchanges 

 among entomologists, and the magazine was kept up by Newman 

 until his death, in June, 1876. His son decided to continue the 

 publication. Mr. Carrington was appointed editor, and under his care it 

 was very considerably improv'ed, and soon took first rank. It was subse- 

 quently sold to Mr. Leech, who wanted a medium in which to descril)e 

 new species he was receiving from collectors abroad. His curator, Mr. 

 R. South, was appointed editor, and, subsequently, Mr. Leech gave 

 the magazine to Mr. South entirely, under whose editorship it has con- 

 tinued to the present time. 



The Yorkshire naturalists, along with those of our own counties 

 of Lancashire and Cheshire, were, in the early sixties, a very 

 numerous body of hard-working field naturalists. In time, an organ 

 of their own appeared to be a sine qua mm, and The Xaturalisf. was 

 commenced in 1875. This, which was not exclusively entomological, 

 was at first edited by Messrs. Porritt and Hobkirk, who continued at 

 their post until 1884, when Tlie Xaturalist became the property of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, with their secretary, Mr. W. Denison 

 Eoebuck, as editor, a post which he still retains. In 1879, two of 

 our members, Messrs. Mosley, of Huddersfield, and Robson, of Hartle- 

 pool, commenced The Yonn;/ Xaturalist. This was done avowedly with a 

 desire to revive the days of The Iiitelli(/enrer, of which, at first, it was a 

 close imitation. For three years it appeared as a weekly paper, and then 

 monthly for another eight years. The leading idea was to assist 

 beginners, but though it was called by a general name, it was chiefly 

 devoted to entomology, of which both the editors were votaries, 

 though Mr. Mosley had considerable knowledge of other branches of 

 natural history. In order to do away with the idea that it was only 

 intended for children, the title was changed, at vol. xii., to the British 

 Naturalist. Mr. Robson had had sole control for some time, with a 

 staff of assistants, and his health, now giving way after repeated 

 attacks of influenza, he suddenly announced its termination. Our 

 Warrington friends, Messrs. L. Greening and J. Smith, conceived the 

 idea of continuing it, but the suddenness of its termination threw 

 great difficulties in their way. They made a gallant attempt to 

 overcome them, but at the end of their first volume it ceased to 

 appear. 



During the latter days of Mr. Carrington's editorship of The 

 Kntnmohxjii-.t, a series of articles '' On the variation of the liritish 

 Nocture, " from the facile pen of Mr. J. W. Tutt, were in course of 

 publication. When the magazine changed hands, he refused to 

 continue the publication of these papers in it, and they were almost 

 immediately afterwards published as a separate work in four volumes. 

 Almost immediately afterwards the publication of the Ent()uiolniiist\<} 

 Fu'cord, with w^hich most of you will be familiar was commenced. 

 You will also know that Mr. Tutt has conducted it alone to the 

 present time. 



'The Xaturalists .Journal started in London in 1892, as a penny 

 monthly. In 1894, ]\Ir. Mosley became joint editor, in 1896 sole editor, 



