Sheppard: Yorkshtre’s Contribution to Sctence. 77 
In the last part (December 1898) we learn that ‘ for twenty-two 
years has The Natural History Journal been an institution in 
our schools. ... Probably the feeling was shared by many of 
us that when Mr. J. E. Clark was compelled to retire from the 
post of editor it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, adequately 
to fill his place.’ The new editor only accepted the post ‘on 
condition that the paper paid its way ; but the fact is the excess 
of expenditure over income for 1908 is £17, and the financial 
editor feels that he cannot face another year with a similar 
prospect awaiting him at the end of it.’ 
Since the cessation of the Journal, the Annual Report of the 
Bootham School Natural History Society has to a small extent 
taken its place. 
NATURAL SCIENCE. 
This shillmg monthly magazine (large 8vo), published by 
Macmillan, was by far the finest magazine of its kind on the 
market. It was edited anonymously, though we have an idea 
how and where, and we believe Yorkshire had a finger in the pie. 
Its criticisms were favourable where praise was due, and caustic 
where considered necessary. It made a special feature of its 
current “ Notes and Comments,’ book reviews, and smaller news 
items, and many were made to smart by its lashings. Its con- 
tributions were of an exceptionally high order. 
Volume I. (March to December 1892, contained 800 pages. 
It included articles by J. W. Davis, Thomas Hick, Clement 
Reid, A. Smith Woodward, Henry Woodward, J. E. Marr, 
Alfred Harker, J. J. H. Teall, W. C. Williamson, A. €. Seward, 
A. J. Jukes-Browne, R. Lydekker, G. A. Boulenger, H. O. Forbes, 
and others well known to Yorkshire naturalists. 
Subsequent volumes (2 to 15) were published, two each year, 
and averaged 500 pages each. The publishers were changed 
on more than one occasion, and towards the end, the editor- 
ship was apparently also altered. 
The first ‘Note and Comment’ in the issue for December, 
1899, was entitled ‘ Eliminated,’ and read: ‘It is one of the 
conditions of continued vigorous activity on an organism’s part 
that income be at least equal to expenditure, and the same 
is true of journals. To try to sustain the activity when the 
aforesaid condition is not fulfilled is not uninteresting, but there 
are limits to the possibility of continuing it. We regret to say 
that we have reached these limits as regards National Science. . . . 
We make our bow, then, to the process of natural elimination.’ 
(To be continued). 
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No. 27 of the Quarterly Notes issued by the Belfast Museum is devoted 
to ‘Old Domestic Plenishings,’ and No. 26 to ‘ Objects connected with 
Tobacco Smoking,’ etc. 
1915 Feb. 1. 
