324 Notes and Comments. 



may be gathered from the foreword : — •' This Federation of 

 Educational Societies in the City has been formed with the 

 object of preventing the clashing of dates or the over-lapping 

 of the subjects dealt with ; of issuing this joint -programme ; 

 and of taking any other joint action which seems desirable 

 from time to time. The starred lectures in the list of any 

 Society may be attended free of charge by the members of 

 any other Society in the Federation, on production of a card 

 of membership. Opportunity will be taken from time to 

 time to include in the Official Monthly Journal issued to 

 teachers, references to the Lectures and Meetings of the 

 Societies named herein. The Federation has been very 

 helpful in the institution of Interesting Leisure Evenings for 

 Adults at various centres in the City, and of Summer Ex- 

 cursions in connexion with them.' 



BRITISH MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The Society's Transactions just issued, and edited by Carle- 

 ton Rea and J. Ramsbottom, form a substantial contribution 

 to Mycology, and contain many papers of considerable value. 

 There is the Presidential address of T. Fetch, on ' Fungi 

 Parasitic on Scale Insects ' ; and the same author contributes 

 'Studies in Entomogenous Fungi.' J. Ramsbottom writes 

 on the ' Minehead Foray,' and on ' Californian Bees.' With 

 regard to the Ginger Beer Plant, the author states ' As all 

 the correspondents insist on this " American Plant " being 

 a new species, I propose to humour them by calling it Zingibeer- 

 opJiora spumacephala . ' 



OTHER PAPERS. 



Other papers include ' Minehead Mycetozoa,' by G. Lister; 

 ' Portlock Mycetozoa,' by N. G. Hadden ; ' Minehead Lichens,' 

 by H. H. Knight ; ' The Sporulation of Gonidia in the Th alius 

 of Evernia prunastri,' by R. Paulson ; 'Three Fungi Imper- 

 fecti,' by J. S. B. Elliott and H. C. Chance ; 'Two New 

 Basidiomycetes,' by H. Bourdot ; 'New British Hymenomj'- 

 cetes,' by A. A. Pearson ; ' New or Rare British Discomycetae,' 

 by C. Rea ; ' The Ocellus Function of the Subsporangeal Swell- 

 ing in Pilobolus,' by A. H. R. Buller ; 'Life History and 

 Morphology of Uyocystes cepulae,' by T. Whitehead; 'The 

 Inheritance of Disease-Resistance in Plants,' by F. T. Brooks; 

 ' New or Rare British Fungi,' by M. Wilson; 'Audibility of 

 the Spore discharge in Otidea Icporina,' by R. B. Johnstone. 

 We are glad to see that several of the contributors are ladies. 

 The price of the publication is 12/6, which is very reasonable, 

 and it can be obtained from the Cambridge University Press. 



'obsession' v. THEFT. 



A ' well-built young man of nineteen,' living some distance 

 from Hull, recently rode into Hull at midnight, armed with 



Naturalist 



