860 NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



genuine workers, and it is to these that we must look to uphold the 

 character of their respective Societies. That such workers exist in 

 Manchester no one who has had the privilege of being present at a 

 meeting of the field natiu-alists can doubt, and we can only regret that 

 the}' have not given to the public some more substantial proof of their 

 work. There is room for a good Flora of Manchester, for Mr. Grin- 

 don's, although useful as far as it goes, was published in 1859, and is 

 now out of print, since which much has been added to the knowledge 

 of the botany of the district. A list of the Mosses of the district, by 

 Mr. G. E. Hunt, appeared in the Eeport for 1864, and similar lists of 

 the various natural productions of the district might well be issued 

 with each Report instead of the abstracts of papers, which, though 

 admirable in their way, are scarcely of the permanent value whicii 

 local lists would possess. The Annual Report is the only publication 

 of the Society ; it is issued gratuitously to members, and to non- 

 members at M,. Those who would obtain further particulars of the 

 first decade of the Society's existence than can be given in a brief 

 notice like the present cannot do better than purchase the Report for 

 1869, in which a summary is given of its doings up to the present, 

 time. 



Ucto IJublications. 



British Fungi. — 1. Remarks on some of the Tungi met with in the 

 neighbourhood of Bath. By C. E. Broome, M.A.,- F.L.S. (In 

 the ' Proceedings of the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian 

 Field-Club,' vol, ii. no. 1, p. 55.) — 2. On the Forms and Per- 

 sistency of Arboreal Fungi, jjarticularly Polgporei, and notices of 

 some rare species in the Malvern District. By Edwin Lees, F.L.S., 

 F.G.S. (In the ' Transactions of the Malvern Naturalists' Field- 

 Club,' part 3, p. 197.) 



During the last few years the study of Fungi in this country has 

 gi'eatly advanced ; instead of a few students devoting themselves to 

 the Fungus tribe, we have now many zealous Avorkers. Some years 

 ago British fungology wa*? comparatively neglected and cast aside, 

 and amongst those who then laboured most earnestly and successfully 



