Revieivs and Book Notices. 



The highest previous tide in the Humber, at Hull, of which 

 there is any record, was in March 1883, when high water 

 reached 15 '91 feet above Ordnance Datum. 



The segfer ran up the Trent with considerable force, passing- 

 Gainsborough with a crest of 4 to 4^ feet high followed by five 

 or six other waves — the breaking wave running along the banks 

 with a height of five to six feet. After the bore passed the 

 water rose 4 feet in as man}- minutes. 



In the Ouse also there was a strong seger passing Goole 

 with a crest 2 feet high, and at Selby 3 feet, the wave there 

 breaking completely over some keels lying aground in the river. 



The Hull Museum and Education. Fourteenth Quarterly 

 Record of Additions. By Thomas Sheppard, F.Q.S. Being: Nos. 26 



and 27 of the Hull Museum Publications. 



' Good stuff lies in little room ' is an adag-e exemplified in these two 

 pamphlets. Into their 46 pages a g-oodly mass of instructive and withal 

 easily assimilable information has been compressed. The first of these 

 g-ives a concise history of the museum from its inception in 1822 to the 

 present time, and enlarg-es upon the educational lines on which it is now 

 conducted. To most of the author's strictures on the aimless and diversified 

 nature of the collections in most provincial museums we should be disposed 

 to assent. Here and there they seem unduly severe, e.g. , those of Llewellyn 

 Jewitt, quoted with seeming" approval from the 'Art Journal.' The evolu- 

 tion of boots and walking sticks may be equally as scientific a study as the 

 evolution of weapons of offence and defence, to the case illustrating- which 

 Mr. Sheppard deservedly draws attention ; and it does not detract from 

 their interest and value to know that Queen Elizabeth used one and a 

 prominent actor in the Civil War another. 



Special attention is drawn to the fact that the main feature of the 

 museum is that its contents are almost entirely of a local character. Not- 

 withstanding- this we were amused, but not surprised to find from the 

 second of these pamphlets that the sig"ht of a Roman brooch, found near 

 Doncaster and exposed for sale in that town, proved irresistible to Mr. 

 Sheppard, who promptly secured it for his, not the, local museum. Excep- 

 tions of this kind are the natural outcome of that boundless enthusiasm and 

 ready knowledg-e possessed by Mr. Sheppard, of which the final portion 

 of the first pamphlet is a sanjple. Here we find how much really solid 

 education a museum may disseminate amongst j'oung- and old when an 

 energ-etic and capable man is at its head. 



For some time past five morning^s each week have been devoted to the 

 delivery of lectures to scholars. A list of the lectures, numbering- 21, is 

 g-iven. These are well-ordered, prog-ressive, and wide in their scope, 

 ranging from the early history of the earth and the various changes it 

 has undergone and is imdergoing, to the economic arts of coining and 

 pottery. That they have been productive of much good cannot be 

 questioned. It has been the writer's good fortune to be present at one 

 of these morning lectures, and the sig'ht of a large class of boys, orderly 

 and well-behaved, eagerly attentive to Mr. Sheppard's every word, was 

 a sight not soon to be forgotten. 



To the discerning- niind a pamphlet of this kind, combining- as it does 

 theory with practice, is a real inspir^ition. What Hull has done and is 

 doing other towns can do ; perhaps not quite so well, for curators of the 

 stamp of Mr. Sheppard are not to be found readih\ We fancy no one will be 

 more disappointed than the writer himself if his pamphlet fails to stimulate 

 natural history societies in other towns to be up and doing. — E. G. B. 



Naturalist. 



