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Our monthly journal, The Naturalist, is considered by Mr. 
Roebuck* to have started in January, 1833, when the first part of 
THE FIELD NATURALIST 
was published, ‘ A review of animals, plants, minerals, the struct- 
ure of the earth, and appearances of the sky.’ It was an octavo 
monthly illustrated magazine, averaging 48 pages, edited by 
James Rennie, and published by Orr and Smith, London. The 
first volume contained 12 monthly parts (552 pp., Jan.-Dec.) and 
the second volume contained the four parts, January-April, 1834, 
(220 pages). It ceased with its fourteenth issue. A title page 
was issued, dated 1835, with the words ‘ Two Volumes in One.’ 
An index appeared to ‘vols. I and 2,’ at the conclusion of 
which is ‘The End,’ so that clearly no more were issued. It is 
pleasing to state that this publication gave the part and number 
of the volume on each sheet, and the date was printed on the first 
page of each month’s issue, so that its collation has been an easy 
matter. 
_ This was followed by 
THE NATURALIST. 
The first printed publication that I have been able to trace with 
this title, consisted of five royal 8vo volumes, published between 
October 1836 and September 1839. Volume I., edited by B. 
Maund and W. Holl, and published by R. Groombridge, London, 
(October 1836—March, 1837), contained 291 pages; Volume II. 
was edited by Neville Wood, and published by Whittaker & Co., 
both of whom were connected with the journal in their respective 
capacities until the end of the series. The volumes contained :— 
II., April—December, 1837, 506 pages; III., January—Septem- 
ber, 1838, 505 pages; IV., October, 1838—June, 1839, 504 
pages ; and V., July—September, 1839, 171 pages. Thus thirty- 
six monthly parts were issued, averaging 50 pages each; as 
well as illustratious in the text, there are several excellent coloured 
plates of rare birds, etc. 
As in the case of its predecessor, with the exception of a few ot 
the earlier numbers, each part published was clearly numbered 
and dated. 
From Volume II. (1837) the publication can be said to be a 
distinctly Yorkshire production, as Neville Wood lived at Camp- 
sall near Doncaster, and apparently the journal was printed in 
Doncaster, for in an ‘editorial’ dated August 26th, 1839, we 
read: ‘On the completion of the third year of the existence 
* Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, in his address on ‘ Salient Features in the 
History of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union,’ 1904, p. 10, speaking of our 
journal, says ‘ The first series was one of twelve numbers, published in 1833, 
under the title of “‘ The Field Naturalist,”’ Presumably Mr. Roebuck had seen 
the first volume only. 
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