Xotes and Comments. 
ALUM AND SALT. 
Miss Maud Sellars, who has done so much in connection 
with the past history of our county, contributes some scholarly 
chapters on the alum, salt, pottery, glass and other York- 
shire industries, and really the amount of researches her 
contributions indicate should shame many of her contempor- 
aries of the stronger sex. The only complaint we have to 
make is that she will invariably refer to a certain museum 
curator as /. Sheppard ; evidently having in mind a possible 
ancestor of his, who was a notorious thief and quitted this 
world by being hung! 
LATER HISTORY. 
Later chapters refer to bell founders, agriculture, ancient 
and modern sports, and so on. The histories of the various 
hunts and athletic clubs are very interesting ; and is an 
illustration of the thoroughness of the ‘ History,’ there is even 
an account of the various Yorkshire Golf Clubs, though oddly 
enough the Bridlington Golf Club, which we know very well, 
is not mentioned, though several smaller ones are. 
ECCLESIASTICAL YORKSHIRE. 
The third volume of this work has also recently appeared, 
and is purposely devoted to an account of the ecclesiastical 
history of the county, a history 
such as is unequalled, though it 
unfortunately hardly comes within 
the scope of this journal. Among 
the contributors the names of 
the late T. M. Fallow, the Rev. 
J . Solloway and L. F. Salzman 
loom large, while Miss Sellers gives 
a social and economic historjr of ' 
the county, which contains an 
amount of reesarch that few present 
day workers can appreciate. We 
should like to congratulate the 
publisher, and the editor, Mr. Wm. 
Page, on the volumes. It is impos- 
sible to do anything but praise them.. 
Ammonites elegcintulus. 
Young cV Bird. 1828. 
YORKSHIRE TYRE AMMOXITIES. 
We are pleased to see that this 
publication is favourably progressing towards completion. 
Part XII.* is before us, and contains illustrations and 
descriptions of Ammonites verlicosum, A. ob'soletus, elegantulus, 
sinnatiis, socialis, aureolus and costatum. One of these is 
here reproduced. 
* London : \V. Wesley and Son, 3s. 6d. 
Naturalist, 
