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THE publication of the December issue of the Naturalist, the monthly journal of the Yorkshire Naturalists Union, completes a hundred years of the regular publication of this scientific magazine. The Naturalist originally appeared under the title of the Field Naturalist as an octavo monthly of 48 pages in January 1833, under the editorship of Mr. James Rennie. It ran for fourteen issues and then appeared under the title of the Naturalist, edited by Mr. Neville Wood, of Doncaster. In 1851 the second series of the Naturalist commenced under, the editorship of Beverley R. Morris, and later the Rev. F. C. Morris, author of the well-known “History of British Birds”; the third series, edited by C. P. Hobkirk, appeared from Huddersfield in 1864. The fourth series of this magazine were edited by Joseph Wain-wright and appeared from Huddersfield under the changed title of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Recorder, but the fifth series, in August 1865, reverted to the present title, the Naturalist (Sheppard, “Yorkshir's Contribution to Scientific Literature”, Naturalist 1915). The fifth series, edited by Messrs. C. P. Hobkirk and G. T. Pomitt, was issued at Pontefract, but later transferred to Leeds under the editorship of W. D. Roebuck and W. Eagle Clark, in 1884. In 1889, W. Eagle Clark, leaving for Edinburgh Museum, vacated his editorial post and Roebuck continued to be editor until 1912, assisted by E. R. Wade in 1892. In 1902 the Naturalist was issued from Hull under the editorship of T. Sheppard, assisted by Dr. T. W. Woodward. Mr. Sheppard relinquished the editorship in 1932. He was succeeded in 1933 by Dr. W. E. Pearsall and W. R. Grist as editors, when the Naturalist once more was issued from Leeds.
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Yorkshire Scientific Magazines. Nature 133, 57–58 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133057b0
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