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YORKSHIRE’S CONTRIBUTION TO SCIENCE. 
(Presidential Address to the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, delivered 
at the University, Leeds, 5th December, 1914.). 
By T. SHEPPARD, F.G.S. 
(Continued from page 25). 
MAGAZINES NOW EXTINCT. 
The present instalment includes particulars of the magazines 
and journals which are no longer being published. Many are 
directly connected with Yorkshire ; others contain items bearing 
upon the natural history, etc., of the county. Detailed particulars 
of these are given, as several of the publications are now very 
scarce, in many cases my own being the only complete sets I 
have been able to trace. 
In addition to the following, there are such publications as 
“The Halifax Naturalist,’ “ The Bradford Scientific Journal,’ and 
the journals issued at Barnsley, Keighley, etc., which, however, 
will be dealt with under the heads of the respective towns. 
There are a number of other magaizines, such as ‘ The Midland 
Naturalist ’ (1878-1893, 16 vols., 8vo) ; “The Essex Naturalist ’ 
(1887-1914, 15 vols., 8vo), etc., but these for the most part have 
no particular bearing upon our county, and are not included. 
THE CIRCULATOR. 
In 1861 the Haley Hill Literary and Scientific Society was 
formed in Halifax.* In 1866-7 it published an interesting 
magazine, The Circulator, a magazine of Literature, Science and 
Art, conducted by members of the Haley Hill Literary and Scien- 
tific Society, 1886-7. It bears the imprint ‘ Halifax’ and is 
dated 1867. The volume I have seenf contains Ig0 pages, 8vo, 
but there is nothing to show how frequently it appeared nor how 
many pages were issued at a time.{ There are interesting 
papers on the natural history and geology of the district, as well 
as on poetry, music, etc. Several of the contributions contain the 
earliest records of the district. The Haley Hill Society may be 
said to be the parent of the Halifax Scientific Society. 
THE PRACTICAL NATURALIST. 
Between January and December 1883, a magazine called 
“The Practical Naturalist,’ which contained 140 8vo pages, in 
double columns, was issued, printed and edited in Bradford, 
* For a description of the Society and its work see The Halifax Naturalist, 
Vol. VI., pp. 89-92. 
{ Since given to me by a Halifax friend. 
{ Up to page 117 there are six ‘continued’ articles on Geology by J. 
S[pencer], so that probably about a dozen parts were issued in all. 
1915 Feb. 1. 
