" NeC TEMERJS — NBC TIMIDE." 



THE NATURALIST. 



ADDRESS. 



In issuing our first number to Naturalists and Naturalists' Societies, it 

 is perhaps necessary that some few words should be offered for our 

 raison d'etre. 



Ever since the untimely decease of the Journal published in this 

 district, which appeared for three years (1865-G-7), under the some- 

 what general title of " The Naturalist," a want has been felt in 

 Yorkshire for a similar publication, for the purpose of recording the 

 observations of amateur naturalists and local Societies. This want, 

 which had been growing for some years, was recently attempted to be 

 supplied by a journal issued by a member of one of our local Natural 

 History Societies — that of Wakefield — which took the title of the 



Naturalists' Recorder." This, however, owing to a variety of 

 causes, had but a short-lived existence. The Societies in the Union of 

 the West Riding Consolidated Naturalists' Society then took the 

 matter into serious consideration at several of their recent meetings, 

 with a view to again attempting to meet the want felt by all our 

 members ; and at the meeting held at Rastrick, near Huddersfield, on 

 12th June, a prospectus was submitted, and finall}^ agreed to, as the 

 basis of a new Journal, " The Yorkshire, Naturalist," which thus 

 makes its first appearance to-day, under our editorship. 



Its principal object is, then, to afford a means of communication 

 amongst all Natural History Societies, either within or outside the 

 boundaries of the County of York, and of every individual member of 

 such Societies : and we shaU also be only too glad to see the names of 

 other gentlemen not connected with such Societies, as contributors 

 to our pages. 



