118 THE EEV. J. G. WOOD. 



The magazines to wliicli my father at different 

 times contributed are somewhat numerous ; and no 

 doubt to the list which I have been able to draw up 

 many more might be added, of which no record has 

 been preserved. 



London Society was one of the first for which he 

 wrote. In this appeared four of the papers since 

 reprinted in " Out of Doors," among them " Turkey 

 and Oysters," and an essay entitled " Our Eiver Har- 

 vests," giving a description of the science of fish- 

 hatching as it existed in its earliest infancy. In the 

 Cornhill Magazine appeared, among others, two long 

 articles upon the inner life of a hospital, written during 

 the time of the chaplaincy at St. Bartholomew's, and 

 one giving a description of Walton Hall, the celebrated 

 abode of Charles Waterton, the traveller, under the 

 title of " The Home of a Naturalist." In the Boys 

 Own Magazine, which nourished more or less for 

 about eight years, was published the long series of 

 articles entitled " The Zoological Gardens," which 

 practically amounted to a complete Natural History in 

 themselves before they were brought to a premature 

 conclusion by the bankruptcy of the publisher. And 

 besides these, several other shorter papers appeared in 

 the same periodical upon a variety of subjects not con- 

 nected with natural history, but dear to the hearts of 

 juvenile readers. In " The Dark Blue '' were published 

 " De Monstris " an account of that very remarkable 

 book the " Nuremberg Chronicle " " Mrs. Coates' 

 Bath," and several other papers, for the most part 



