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lecturers, but, as it were, to pitch the subject before his class 
or audience, get them all round it, and then help them by 
means of comment, explanation, joke, and gibe to take in as 
much of it as their capacity will stand.” Few men know 
better than Mr. Massee how to sugar a pill, and however 
technical and otherwise uninteresting a subject may be, he 
has the happy knack of imparting it with good humour. The 
present writer well remembers a lecture by Mr. Massee on the 
diseases of fruit trees, wherein the lecturer impressed his 
hearers with the importance of keeping a constant lookout 
for the first signs of attack, concluding his remarks with the 
appropriate exhortation, “ above all, watch and spray.” 
Although an accomplished man he does not seek the lime- 
light, but would, in fact, rather hide his ight under a bushel. 
It is only after repeated requests on our part that we are able 
to publish these notes and portrait. Like a true scientist, he 
is ever willing to acknowledge his indebtedness to fellow 
workers, attributing much of his success in mycology to his. 
personal acquaintance with the Rev. M. J. Berkeley and Dr. 
M. C. Cooke. * 
Mr. Massee is a Fellow of the Linnean Society and many 
other societies, and in 1902 received the Victoria Medal of 
Honour in Horticulture—V.M.H.—from the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society, in recognition of his services in the interest of 
horticultural science.—H.C. 
eS) -——— 
We have previously had occasion to draw attention to the fact that our 
contemporary Punch is drawing upon the readers of The Naturairst. 
instead of sticking to his last. Not only do we reproduce an 
illustration obviously intended for our journal, but we notice the following 
natural history items in one issue of Punch: —‘ A lady—Dr. Marie 
C. Stopes—has been appointed Lecturer on Fossils at London University, 
and there is an ugly rumour on foot to the effect that the subject of her 
first paper will be Man.’ =‘ The elephant which Lord Hardinge was riding 
at the time of the bomb outrage at Dehli, has, in consideration of his steadi- 
ness on that occasion, been made a State pensioner. We understand, 
since the news has leaked out, that he ha$ been pestered with unwelcome 
attentions on the part of fortune-hunters, ‘and, with the view of putting 
an end to the nuisance, he would like it-to be known in the elephant 
world that it is not his intention to marry.’ ‘ At the request of Mr. 
Mawson, Mr. E. R. Waite, curator of the Christchurch Museum, has con- 
sented to prepare the report on the collection of fishes made by the Aus- 
tralasian Antarctic Expedition. Mr. Waite has in hand already the 
fishes which he collected at the Macquarie and Auckland Islands when he 
went to the Southern Ocean in Dr. Mawson’s exploring vessel, the Aurora, 
last year.—Christchurch Press. We are prepared to congratulate Mr. 
Waite, to take off our hats to him—but we will not shake him by the hand.’ 
‘Among the Caves and Pot Holes. Interesting visit to Clapham. (By 
“One of Them.’’)—West Yorks Pioneer.: Oh to be a pot-hole, now that 
July’s here.’ 
[Mr. Waite was formerly curator of a Museum in England, at Leeds, 
in fact, and if Mr. Punch won’t take him by the hand, we will, especially 
if there’s a rare fish in it !—Ed. ] 
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