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Yorkshire's Contribution to Science. With a Bibliography of 

 Natural History Publications. By T. Sheppard, M.8c. 

 (Brown & Sons, Ltd.). 5s. net. 



In this work, which appears to have grown out of an address 

 delivered by the author as President of the Yorkshire Natural- 

 ists' Union, a great quantity of valuable information has 

 been brought together concerning the '' bibliographical 

 particulars of the various joiu-nals and Societies' Transactions " 

 used at various times in the coimty of Yorkshire. These 

 are dealt with under thej following heads : Yorkshire Pub- 

 lications arranged Topographically, Existing Yorkshire 

 Scientific Magazines and their Predecessors, Yorkshire 

 Scientific Magazines now Extinct, County and Riding 

 Societies, and Yorkshire Topographical and General Magazines. 

 The information brought together under these heads forms 

 a valuable mine of reference to the student in these subjects. 

 It must be confessed, however, that Mr. Sheppard's work 

 would have been far more useful had he dealt as thoroughly 

 with books as he appears to have done with the other pub- 

 lications. We find, for instance, the following omissions : 

 The Birds of Wakefield, by William Talbot, 1877 ; Thcakston's 

 Guide to Scarborough (IGth edition, 1871), containing a number 

 of pages devoted to Natural Histor}^ ; Handbook to Bradford 

 and the Neighbourhood, 1900 ; ^4 History of Whitby and 

 Streoneshalh Abbey, by Rev. George Yomig, 1817. The 

 works mentioned were all printed in Yorkshire ; the omission 

 of many other books relating to Yorkshire Natural History but 

 printed outside the comity might be cited. Where books are 

 quoted we find the i^articulars are hardly so full as we should 

 have expected. Thus, in citing Mosley's History of British 

 Birds, Mr. Sheppard omits to inform us that the 69 numbers 

 (he only mentions 68) appeared in 59 parts and that the work 

 was issued in two editions, ''superior" and "ordinary." 



Besides dealing with purely Yorkshire publications, the 

 book also provides details of general natural history journals, 

 scientific societies, books of reference and other useful items. 

 The treatment of these is not always consistent, which 

 detracts rather from the value of the work. Thus we find 

 mention of the successive editors of some journals but not 

 of others, and this information could have been fairly easily 

 obtained, as for instance in the case of the Ibis, whose editors 



