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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 114). 
EXISTING MAGAZINES AND THEIR PREDECESSORS. 
THE NATURALIST. 
The first magazine bearing this title was evidently a written 
monthly periodical, issued at York. For the following reference 
to it I am indebted to Mr. E. G. Bayford ; it is taken from ‘ John 
Stephenson Rowntree: His Life and Work.’ Memoir by Mr. 
Rowntree on the ‘ History of the York Friends’ Boys’ School,’ 
1908, page 339 :—' 
‘Lovell Squire came to Laurence Street as a teacher in the 
summer of 1829. Amongst other ways of interesting the boys 
in natural history he wrote out monthly a little periodical called 
The Naturalist. Probably it recorded such achievements as the dis- 
covery of Listera cordata at Langwith and of Crocus vernus, alas! 
now long since disappeared, on Knavesmire. In 1834 Lovell Squire 
left York but the seed he had sown flourished, and in the harvest 
tide of that year the Natural History Society was formed.’ 
Through the good offices of Mr. Norman Penney, of the 
Friends’ Reference Library in Bishopgate, I have been able to 
see this publication. He traced it in the Bootham School, York. 
The journal consists of twelve numbers, each beautifully 
written in two columns on sheets of foolscap, eight or ten sheets, 
stitched in a cover, forming a part. These were evidently lent 
out among the boys, as instructions are given to exercise care in 
handling the dried plants, most of which still remain in the sheets. 
‘The first part is dated ‘7th day, 6 month, r4th, 1834’ (Saturday, 
June 14th). 
There is an excellently drawn title-page, and the publication 
is dedicated— 
To 
LON: FORD, 
as a slight acknowledgment 
of the encouragement which he has given 
to the Study of 
NAT URE 
and those pursuits connected with it, 
as well as for much personal kindness, 
This little work 
Published in York School 
is presented 
by his sincere and obliged Friend 
The Editor. 
1915 April 1. 
