272 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Lorrain Smith deals with the history of microfungi in this coun- 
try from the earliest records and drawings by Hooke in his Micro- 
graphia (1677) down to the present day. r. M. C. Cooke 
replies-to M. Boudier’s criticisms of his ‘Illustrations,’ published in 
a previous number. Mr. A. ton gives further notes on 
British Clavarie, a record of careful and critical work. Dr. Plow- 
right writes an interesting account of the poisoning case reported 
at Ipswich last autumn, due to eating Amanita phalloides, one of 
our most fatal species. Such cases are rare in this country, 
where the bulk of the people eschew fungi altogether, or confine 
At the installation of Lord Morley as Chancellor of Manchester 
University on July 9, the honorary degree of Doctor of Science 
rre him : 
tenderly convey to you that it is, alas, not new to science; and if 
you are so rash as to doubt his verdict he will indicate the particular 
‘THE Origin and Present Distribution of the British Flora ” 
is the subject of an interesting paper by the Rey. George Henslow 
in The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society for June. 
THE Report of the Botanical Exchange Club for 1907, edited 
by the Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell, the distributor for the year, has 
been issued by Messrs. Parker & Son, Oxford, price 2s. We hope 
to give some extracts from it later, 
