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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
ANIMALS AND FUNGI. 
Mr. Somerville Hastings, whose photographs of toadstools 
are well known, contributes to Knowledge a paper which he 
and Mr. Mottram have written on the results of observations 
and experiments as to the eating of fungi by animals. Squirrels 
and rabbits appear to be the creatures which most commonly 
feed on fungi. In early autumn, when the food is plentiful, 
few specimens are devoured; but in frosty weather, when 
things are different, very many species of fungi are eaten. 
Only in the case of the buried false truffle do the animals appear 
to assist the fungus by distributing the spores by which it 
reproduces itself. 


BRITISH SEA FISH. 
‘British Sea Fish,’ by Harold Swithinbank and G. E. 
Bullen, London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 
Dorsal 
1 Gill-cover 
2nd. a 
Caudal 3rd. i ne Sa ih 

Barbe! 
Pectoral fl 
Lateral Line. Ventral 
Ltd, 35 pages, 2s. net, is an interesting handbook in which 
the authors give a very useful and elementary summary of the 
principal edible fishes to be found round our coast. After the 
introduction dealing with Methods of commercial Fishery and 
a useful table showing comparative values of the principal 
Marine Fishes, the various species are dealt with under the 
headings of ‘usual extreme length,’ ‘ description,’ ‘range ’ 
and ‘remarks.’ An excellent illustration of each species is 
given, one of which we are kindly permitted to reproduce. 
ROMAN CAMP AT STANWICK. 
In an article on ‘ Roman Piercebridge,’ in The Yorkshire 
Archeological Journal, part 92, Mr. Edward Wooler states 
that ‘ Stanwick Camp encloses an area of about 800 acres and 
covers a larger space of ground than has ever been discovered 
in one encampment in Britain. The length of the outward 
ramparts is 8,070 yards, of the outside works 3,183 yards, 

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