Review. Handbook of Fungi. 241 



poisons contained in certain species, should render the book 

 popular and useful to those interested in this side of the subject. 



The genera are illustrated by W. G. Smith's line drawings as 

 in the original Guide. 



For the specific names of Agarics Mr Ramsbottom has followed 

 the system of citation of authors adopted by W. G. Smith in 

 his Synopsis of British Basidiomycctes. Although strictly in 

 accordance \\ith the International Rules of Nomenclature as 

 they stand at present, the method in this particular case is open 

 to serious objections on the ground of convenience, with no 

 particular compensating argument in its favour. It seems verv 

 desirable that the next International Congress should pass the 

 recommendation brought forward by the late Professor G. F. 

 Atkinson in 1910, that the subdi\isions of Agaricus used bv Fries 

 in his Systema Mycologicuvi should be treated as ha\ing been 

 employed as genera at the time of the pubUcation of that work. 



A few sHps occur which should be corrected in anv future 

 edition. On p. 10 mider the section on Mycorrhiza the reference 

 to Corticium should ob\iously apply to Rhizoctonia solani and 

 not to R. tiolacea as stated. In the key to the genera of Agari- 

 caceae on p. 20 beginners may be misled by the placing of 

 AneUaria (spelt Annelaria) on a level with Amanita, as if it 

 possessed a volva. Such sHps, however, are very few, and tvpo- 

 graphical errors are so rare that no others have been detected. 



E. M. W. 



OBITUARY NOTICE. 



HENRY CUSACK WINGFIELD HAWLEY (1876-1923). 



Bv J. Ramsbottam. 



Sir Henry Cusack Wingfield Hawley, Bt., died at Bourne- 

 mouth on November iSth, 1923, and was buried at Leyboume 

 Grange, West MaUing, Kent. He was born on Dec. 23rd, 1S76, 

 and after being at Parkside, Worcester Park, went to Eton and 

 thence to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took honours in 

 Moderations and History. After lea\ing Oxford he read for the 

 Bar and was a member of the Society of the Inner Temple but 

 never practised. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death 

 of his father in 1909 and was the 6th baronet. 



In Sept. 1914 he obtained a commission in the Sth Battalion 

 Royal \Vest Kent Regiment, proceeded as Captain to France 

 and served in the firing-hne till the Armistice; after which he 

 commanded a Labour Company till his demobihsation in May 

 1919. 



