THE MYCETOZOA 55 
The North American Slime Moulds. By Taomas H. Macsruz. 
New York: The Macmillan Co. 1899. 8vo, pp. xvii, 281; 
tab. xviii. 
The Mycetozoa, and some Questions which they suggest. By the 
Rt. Hon. Sir Epwarp Fry and Aenes Fry. London: Know- 
ledge Office. 1899. 8vo, pp. viii, 82; 22 figs. Price 1s. 
finski in the present case) as they took themselves, basing their 
work on Linneus and the Linnean method, the reflection yet 
explains the temptation to go quite wrong in matters of nomen- 
clature which has at all times beset eryptogamists. We had arrived 
does go against the grain to find fa It sometimes seems that 
the author has a positive itch to do things contrary to rule and 
— ake title-page. call them “ Slime 
surely now quite unnecessary) to 
in common with the Fungi? I prefer Sir Edward Fry’s ‘ — é 
which is at least non-committal, or, better still, ‘« Creepies, whic 
