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believed to be just on the verge of extinction in Britain, the last 

 specimens seen being in the most remote districts of the Highlands 

 of Scotland. There is also here a hybrid between a lion and a tiger. 



The first floor is reached by a pretty staircase lined with photo- 

 graphs of animals, etc., and here, suspended from the ceiling, are 

 huge white sharks and other monsters of the deep, overhanging 

 the walrus, the tapir, and the giraffe. Around are cases full of 

 smaller creatures, chiefly Invertebrata, for the Museum is as rich 

 in them as it is in the more conspicuously exhibited Yertebrata. 

 It was, however, thought desirable to leave the detailed examina- 

 tion of these to some future visit. Adjoining the first floor is 

 the zebra room, and above it, reached by an iron staircase, a very 

 rich collection of antelopes is exhibited. 



Some living animals in an adjoining enclosure were then seen, 

 and a pleasant walk was taken through the park, where emus 

 and kangaroos appeared to be as much at home as in their native 

 haunts. The fallow deer were much more shy, no sooner seen 

 than out of sight. A gigantic tortoise, one of the largest in 

 existence, on the other hand, took no notice whatever of his 

 visitors, and an emu resented being disturbed while sitting on 

 a clutch of its eggs. 



On leaving the park, Mr. Hartert was cordially thanked for his 

 kind attention and requested to convey the thanks of the party 

 to the Hon. "Walter Rothschild. Tea was then partaken of in 

 Tring, and the station was reached after a pleasant drive round 

 the Reservoirs. 



Field Meeting, 23ed Octobek, 1897. 

 CASSIOBURY PARK, WATFORD. 



By the kind permission of the Earl of Essex and Sir Matthew 

 White Ridley the annual Fungus Foray was held in Cassiobiuy 

 Park, the Swiss Cottage woods, and the Woodwalks adjoining 

 Cassiobury House. The foray was under the direction of Mr. 

 Hopkinson, and the Fungi were identified by Mr. George Massee, 

 F.L.S., of Kew. 



In the morning a party of eight (assembling at the principal 

 entrance at ten o'clock) crossed the Park to the grounds of the 

 Swiss Cottage, finding about twenty species in the park, and in- 

 creasing the number to nearly one hundred, besides several species 

 not identified at the time, in the damp woods on the opposite side 

 of the River Gade to the Swiss Cottage, which proved to be 

 a prolific hunting-ground, especially for the minuter forms. 



In the afternoon the members, increased in number to upwards 

 of twenty, entered the Cassiobury Woodwalks and strolled along 

 the old coach-road which passes through these (now) private 

 grounds. The search for fungi was here made under difficulties. 

 The woods are preserved, and the members were restrained by an 

 over-zealous keeper from deviating out of this road, beyond its 



