340 Notes and Comments. 



MAKING OF YORKSHIRE.* 



This is essentially a scientific and scholarly work, and in 

 our opinion far exceeds in value any of the numerous interesting 

 volumes with which Mr. Fletcher has previously favoured his 

 readers. By the aid of old maps, plans and histories, and a 

 thorough knowledge of his county and its progress, the author 

 has sketched the evolution of Yorkshire and its towns, trades, 

 industries, farming and other operations. He shows in a 

 surprising manner how many of our greatest manufacturing 

 centres have come into being in quite recent times only, and 

 that less than a century and a half ago a vast agricultural or 

 common land was dotted over with small industrial centres, 

 and he shows how, step by step, many of these have merged 

 into an area which more resembles one great town. His 

 chapter on ' Yorkshire in 1750 ' is a picture remarkably well- 

 drawn and devoid of the inaccuracies so often found in pseudo- 

 popular works. He deals with Communication and Transit ; 

 Power and Machinery ; Coal, Iron, Steel ; Textiles ; Agri- 

 culture : Religion : Education, and so on. The present 

 writer would like to take this opportunity of thanking Mr. 

 Fletcher for the various flattering references mad'^^ to his work 

 and writings, and is happy to think that in some small way he 

 has assisted the author in producing such an excellent work as 

 ' The Making of Modern Yorkshire.' 



CARBONIFEROUS GONIATITES. 



We are glad to see that Dr. Wheelton Hind is continuing 

 his studies of Carboniferous fossils, a subject which formed the 

 theme of his valuable contributions to this journal a little 

 while ago. In The Geological Magazine for October, he has a 

 paper ' On the Distribution of the British Carboniferous 

 Goniatites, with a Description of one New Genus and some 

 New Species.' He gives reasons for assuming that the localities 

 Halifax ' and ' Todmorden ' on many important specimens 

 in the British Museum, are not reliable. His paper contains 

 Notes on each species of Carboniferous Goniatites. with 

 Distribution and Locahties. The new Genus described is 

 named Sagittoceros, and the new species are Sagittoceros actUum, 

 from Craven ; and Pericyclus yedesdalensis, from Northumber- 

 land. There is a plate of figures. 



CAPT. H. V. CORBETT. 



We much regret to observe the following announcement in 

 the press : — ' Capt. H. V. Corbett, Cambridgeshire Regt., at- 

 tached Essex Regt., only son of Dr. H. H. Corbett, Thome 



* 'The Making of Modern Yorkshire, 1750-1914.' By J. S. Fletcher. 

 London : George Allen & Unwin. 328 pp., 7/6 net. 



Naturalist, 



