328 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
NOTES—MAMMALIA, 
brs by meet 79 in Derbyshire.—Through the courtesy of Mr. G. F. bette: 
I have been ab examine a hidkers d Bat ( (Tespert ge sreareconres which was 
killed last fie, a broad daylight, at g se d.— . OLDHAM, Romiley, 
Aug. 6, 1895. 
Porpoise in the Mersey.—Mr. Chas. Madeley, of the Warrington Museum, 
informs me that a Porpoise ( sr ge ~_o was shot in the polluted sit 
of the M , at Latchford Weir, a mile o above Warrington, on May 2 
—CuHas, OLDHAM, Romiley, 6. 
He edgeh ct asia Nottinghamshire.—Apropos of 
a id Barts note in bel Nhe opal of the ‘ Nataralet? . rw? be worth its 
August 3, 1895. 
NOTE—FUNGI. 
New Lincolnshire Fungi.—The following ae were collected during 
the month of August in Lincolnshire, and are not included in the list given in 
Mr. Lees’ Outline Flora of the county :-— 
Aman Tr. 
Amanita excelsus Fr. Wood near Market Rase 
Amanita strobiliformis Vitt. Outskirts of of Broughton Wood. 
ypholoma candolleanus Fr. Winterton 
oprinus fimetarius Fr. Near Haxe 
Gomphidius roseus Fr. Fir-wood in Linwood Warren. 
‘axillus atro- 
Paxilli tomentosus Fr. Appleby Wood 
Lactarius mitissimus Fr. B hton W 
Russula Ts r 
Marasmius someanate Fr, Near Hax 
Boletus bovinus L. Fir-wood, Lin ores Warren. 
Tremella mentieeies Retz. Appleby Wood. 
—W. Fow er, Liversedge Vicarage, August jIst, 1895. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
‘The | Footpath Manual | giving an outline of | the Law panes to Public 
Footpaths, Roads, &c., for the use | of District and Parish Coun et By 
Henry Allnutt, | Secretary to the” Bas gene Footpath previa "Soci ig 
Speomes, London : | 5’ has lately reached us fom “the 
th ve tion Socie ociety. It | is . small booklet of 36 pages—in 
fear s, and includes various Barge: as to the legal aspects & the footpath ted 
barbed-wire fence questions of cases. 
Ser oend 
A little book by Mr. H. K. Swann, entitled ‘Nature in Acadie * (London, 
John Bale & Sons, 1895, cr. 8vo. cloth, 74 pages, 3/6) — in a gossipping 
manner of the natural history of a brief sojourn in Nov tia from October to 
ay: the Siede ig mentioned i in the 
text. The: observations “henseve are chronological, and dates given. The 
work itself is tl a by a two-page poem to ‘H. D. Thoreau’ from the pen of 
the author, and a pensation represents ‘ Melville Island.’ 
— ee 
Naturalist, 
