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members. The district treated of comprises that within a radius of 

 fifteen miles of Liverpool Exchange, and also includes the Sandhills 

 as far north as Southport. There must be a very large number of 

 botanists within this area to whom the work will be a most useful one. 

 The last edition was published by the same society in 1872, and was 

 followed by three Appendices bringing it up to 1887. Since then many 

 changes have occurred, necessitating the present new and up-to-date 

 volume. This edition comprises the work of the Flora Committee of 

 the Liverpool Field Club of 1893, of which the editor was a member. 

 Also numerous new localities are recorded by him, chiefly for Wirral, 

 since the date mentioned. The editor is Dr Theodore Green, the presi- 

 dent of the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club, and he has had the able 

 assistance of Dr J. W. Ellis and Miss E. M. Wood in the illustrations. 

 The former contributes the photographs of the local scenery, while Miss 

 Wood (the botanical referee of the club) has added a large number of 

 drawings of the flowers from nature. Both forms of illustration are 

 excellently done, and will make the book useful over a much wider area 

 than its title indicates. We congratulate Dr Theodore Green, his 

 coadjutors, and the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club, on the issue of 

 such an attractive and useful volume. It is another example of the 

 good work our field clubs are doing. 



The British Mycological Society held their annual week's Fungus 

 Foray in the Hereford district, on the invitation of the Woolhope 

 Naturalists' Field Club. At a meeting of the members the Rev. W. L. 

 W. Eyre, Hants, was unanimously elected president for the ensuing 

 year. Professor Marshall Ward, F.R.S., was elected vice-president, 

 and to the great satisfaction of the members Mr Carleton Rea was pre- 

 vailed upon to once more assume the duties of secretary and treasurer. 

 Mr Carleton Rea, if we recollect rightly, has served the society in these 

 capacities for seven years, and he was desirous of giving up office, but 

 the society were naturally very loath to part with his services, and he 

 acceded to their wishes. During the week of the foray papers were 

 read by Mr P. H. Biffin, M.A., on the " Life-History of Acrospeira 

 mirabilis^'' and by Miss Annie Lorraine on a " Species of Stilbum." 

 The week proved a very interesting one to the mycologists, whose next 

 year's foray is to be held at Savernake Forest. 



Just as we go to press we have received the Annual Transactions of 

 the Natural History Society of Glasgow, which contains some very 

 interesting matter, to which we shall refer in more detail in our next 

 issue. We are glad to note that Mr Hugh Boyd Watt's important 

 paper on the " Seals, Whales, and Dolphins of the Clyde Sea Area " 

 lias been issued also as a separate paper. 



