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THE FUNGUS SHOW. 



This we hope will become a reality. The meeting alluded to in our last 

 number was duly held, and there was a good attendance. Professor Ogilvie 

 was called to the chair, and Mr. Roy appointed clerk. A number of letters 

 from all parts of the kingdom, heartily approving of the scheme, were read. 

 A committee, consisting of Professors Dickie and Ogilvie, Rev. Messrs. 

 Fergusson and Beverley, Messrs. Roy, Rennie, and Reid (and subsequently 

 Dr. Buchanan White, and Rev. Messrs. Keith, Anderson, and Stevenson), 

 were appointed to make arrangements. The day of exhibition has not yet 

 been fixed, but it will take place in the second or third week of September, 

 and parcels must be sent to the Music Hall Buildings, Aberdeen, the day 

 before the day of exhibition. From the promises made there is no doubt 

 but that the exhibition will be successful. Intending exhibitors and those 

 interested may learn further particulars from Mr. Roy, 3 Loanhead Place, 

 Aberdeen, or from any member of the committee. The exhibition, it is 

 contemplated, shall be held each year in a different town ; it is also in con- 

 templation to form a Scottish Mycological Society for the promotion of the 

 study of Fungi, and a meeting to consider the propriety of this will be held 

 in Aberdeen at the time of the exhibition. By the way, it may be of use 

 to intending exhibitors to mention that Fungi ought each to be wrapped in 

 a separate piece of paper when being packed to be forwarded for exhibition.. 



VAKIOUS NOTES. 



We lately noticed the formation of a Naturalists' Field Club in Dundee ;. 

 it is now our pleasant duty to record the institution of the "Ross-shire 

 Field Naturalists' Club," which took place on April 20th. The President 

 is Sir K. S. Mackenzie, Bart., of Gairloch, and the Hon. Secretary is Dr. 

 Middleton. The objects of the Club are to investigate the natural history 

 of the North of Scotland, and of Ross and Cromarty in particular. The 

 Club is to have a library, and, if possible, a local niuseum, which, projected 

 at Strathpeffer, will be in connection with it. We wish the new Club all 

 success. The members have a grand and almost unworked field to labour 

 in, and as their Society is the most northerly one in Britain (the one that 

 once existed in Orkney having apparently disappeared), they will occupy a 

 somewhat conspicuous position, and will be expected to render a good 

 account of their labours. 



The West, too, is wakening up. We have already alluded to the good 

 work done and doing by the Glasgow Naturalists' Club ; now the Rothesay 

 Society are forming an Aquarium on a somewhat large scale. In our next 

 number we hope to be able to give full particulars. 



The second part of the transactions of the Glasgow Society of Field 

 Naturalists is before us. It is well got up, and though few of the papers 

 read at the meetings of the Club are given at length, yet there is evidence 

 of a lot of work having been done. There is an exhaustive article on 

 Scottish Cynipidce, by Mr P. Cameron, jun., and an interesting account of 

 an excursion to Ben Lawers, by Mr. James Allan, which should have the 

 effect of making all young botanists who read it long to rush off to that 

 monarch of mountains. 



