26 Book Notices and Reviews. 



I shall like home twice as well at my retiirne, and I hope I shall 

 be more healthfuU for it. ... I prithee ag^ain be merry . . . 

 for I doe it to gain my health and ease my spirits, overtired 

 with my calling- and thoug^hts.' . . . For Mistress Anne 

 Lister at her house in Lendall street in Yorke. What a gotii 

 we have here ! — -'overtired' with his — 'thoug^hts.' Lister lived 

 many years longer than this wife, marrying a second time and 

 dying in ' February, 1711-12,' but in his Will he directed that he 

 should be buried in the grave of his first wife at Clapham in 

 Surrey. He was. 



The Orchidaceous genus Listera — of which two species grow 

 in Yorkshire, was named after him; likewise the specific name of 

 a Philippine land-snail of the genus Obba, allied to Helix ; and 

 even (as Mr. W. D. Roebuck has pointed out to me) conferred 

 upon a British freshwater shell — Palndina listeri — now Vivipara 

 contectn. 



In all, this is a memoir that confers upon Mr. Goulding the 

 distinction due to all thorough and modest work, although one 

 can read through the lines the real pleasure given its author 

 'by the way' — the dark and dnsty fallentis se?nii(i vitce of old 

 tome and holograph — in a longer Journey than that of Lister's 

 to Paris thirteen years before his death. — F. A. L. 



The Report of the Manchester Museum, Owens College, for 1901-2, 

 has just been issued, and contains particulars of the work accom- 

 plished during the year. Many important additions have been made to the 

 collections. In common with most provincial museums, the want of funds 

 is keenly felt. The income from all sources was ^1^2, 704, of which ;!^io8 was 

 spent in purchasing- specimens. The Manchester Museum is an exceedingly 

 successful one, and deserves better financial support. 



' Brown's Pocket Map to illustrate the Geology and Flora of the East 

 Riding,' is a neat production in five colours. It can be obtained from 

 Messrs. A. Brown & Sons, Savile Street, Hull, for 4d. , or, mounted on 

 linen, 8d. It is reproduced from Robinson's Flora of the East Riding. 



Hull Museum Publications, No. 9, is the first of a ' Quarterly Record of 

 Additions ' which the Museum is publishing. It deals principall}' with 

 antiquities (several of which are figured), though some important gifts of 

 geological and natural history specimens are announced. ' Remains of 

 Ichthyosnuras thyrcospoiidyhis Phillips from the Kimeridge Clay of East 

 Yorkshire' is the title of Publication No. 10, and contains a detailed and 

 illustrated account of the discovery recenth^ made at Speeton, recorded in 

 these pages by Mr. J. W. Stather, F.G.S. The pamphlet also contains 

 a paper on the ' Educational Advantag-es of a Museum,' and several items 

 under 'Museum Notes and News.' Publication No. 11 is the second 

 quarterly ' Record of Additions.' These publications are sold at one penny 

 each. 



Naturalist, 



