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raised, equipped, sent into the field and sustained, the 

 Strathcona Regiment of Horse, 600 strong, at a time of 

 sore trial for British authority in South Africa. It was 

 a fitting tribute to this great statesman that a tomb in 

 Westminster Abbey should have been offered for receiv- 

 ing his remains when he passed away, in his 94th year: 

 and although that distinguished honour was declined by 

 his family, it was altogether in keeping with the best 

 British traditions that a service to his memory was held 

 in the great national temple, the most illustrious in the 

 land joining in the tribute of admiration and respect. 



*SOME RARE FUNGI FOUND AT 

 ST. ANDREWS, N.B. 



This one of the several St. Andrews of Canada 

 seems to us a particularly favourable locality for the 

 collection and study of fleshy Fungi. The late Dr. Pen- 

 hallow confirmed this opinion when a list of its Fungi 

 was submitted to him, as has Prof. Peck, the State 

 Botanist of New York, to whom difficult and uncommon 

 species have been sent for identification. Our study 

 of them has been only occasional, and almost altogether 

 confined to a small island near St. Andrews. From the 

 rarer forms, which I shall mention, and the enormous 

 quantity of commoner varieties appearing every sum- 

 mer and autumn, an idea may be gained of the inter- 

 esting forms of this plant-life likely to be found in all 

 the country round about. 



Of the white-spored Agarics : Agaricacea?, the 

 genera Amanita, Amanitopsis and Lepiota are each 

 represented on the island by several species, almost all 

 appearing in great abundance, no especially rare ones 



* Read before the Natural History Society of Montreal, by 

 Adaline Van Home, Feb. 26, 1912. 



