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434 NOTICES. Descriptive Catalogue of the Charters, Rolls, Deeds, Pedigrees, Pamphlets, Newspapers, Monumental inscriptions, maps, and miscellaneous papers form- ing the Jackson Collection at the Sheffield Public Reference Library. Compiled by T. Walter Hall and A. Hermann Thomas. Sheffield: J. W. Northend. pp. xvi. 419. HE librarians of provincial towns and cities arc often urged to collect local records, but it is not often that so fine an assortment as that here cata- logued comes to them by way of gift. Sheffield's good fortune in this respect is not undeserved, for Professor Henry Jackson tells us that he was hesitating what to do with his brother's collection when the appearance of Mr. Walter Hall's 'Catalogue of the Charters, Deeds, and Manuscripts in the Public Reference Library ' made it clear that there were those in Sheffield who were interested in its history and prepared to spend time and trouble upon its records ; so to Sheffield the collection went. It consists of the papers acquired by members of the Jackson family at various times in the course of a century, and more especially of two purchases made by Mr. Alfred Jackson late in life, the one of some of the papers amassed by Joseph Hunter, the historian of Hallamshire, the other those of a next-door