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imei > meet with, and all circumstances apparent 
circles are sometimes met with in woods 
и 
they 
yastured, and these 
rapid growth where 
of the pasture, while various Agarics ge 
ius On This is one wa 
ed, b will 
odhope Naturalists' Club, are 
certainly о the operations of the mole in turning 
up the ti be the surface at certain times ; for large 
arcs and wavy lines upturned by this animal I have 
. afterwards found occupied by А. (Clytocybe) geo- 
The observation of White, of Selborne, is 
‘to the same effect. A long list might be made of 
. the various fungi that appear in rin 
| * believe formed of them—including 
ppear altogether, new ones arise 
places. Edwin Lees, F.L.S., Green 
ALPHONSE MAS. 
WE take the following details concerning the car 
of this distinguished French раар from acd 
Cultivateur de la Région Lyonnaise 
Alphonse Mas, president of the Pomological 
Society of France, died at Bourg on November 15, 
aged fifty-nine years. М. Mas, although poems 
cold in demeanour, possessed an ne heart 
was of an affectionate disposition and a valued Vien. 
A man of firm, well-founded anh his life was 
irreproachable, and devoted to work and to science. 
М. Mas was descended from an old and much- 
respected family belonging to Lyons, and in his youth 
ul 
FIG. I57.—ARISTOTELIA MACQUI, 
— 
racteristic of the flora of the Mediterranean region, 
and of Eastern France, 
eee botanical exercises, and a life passed out-of- 
doors chiefly, gave M. Mas a liking for agricultural 
ioi to which he intended to devote ае wheal 
his A with М 
remain at 
the cultivation of trees, and in a few 
lected tog т he s ade 
Eu аук шымы 
This collect on of fruit trees is considered by compe- 
tent decem one of the finest in Europe | 
M, Mas, by sava піз, Сегтап, 
English, Italian, and American, distinguished by 
their knowledge of fruit trees, ec and emnes 
o be found in the Verger, a magnificent work, 
Ча ра N 1 з а: at 41 > LI т 
varieties of Apples and stone fruit, This work was 
o have been supplemented by another, Pomologie 
Cobb in it was proposed to give illustra- 
ions of new and little known fruits. Two volumes 
only a has unfortunately 
is eic however, that some friends of M. Mas will 
complete, 
‚ Ma was not only learned in pomology and an 
indefatigable inquirer, but he was 
an, a raiser o p inds of ‚әз ; he was also an 
experimenter as m growing th 
Under his able presidency the =й. ан Society 
of Ain became one of the best t managed, most 
flonrishing, тч inl useful societies in France. is 
55 ifi 
sessed by M. Mas, late President. In it a very large 
collection of fruit trees is grown, old and new, and a 
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vast collection of vegetables, Each member of the 
Society has a right to seeds and fruits, which are 
equally divided by a committee appointed for the 
purpose. M. Mas was some years since 
sident of the Pomological Society of France. <A 
better choice could not have been made, for, in spite 
of feeble health, M. Mas ably fulfilled all the duties of 
is posi: all i and 
ill health, M. Mas presided at the 
d est much- 
coadjutor by the burgomaster of Ghent and the 
last 
to the of all who 
him, and of profiting 
valuable ts. 
