COMING FUNGUS FORAYS. 
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Woolhope Fungus Foray. — To assemble at Hereford on and 
after Monday, October 2nd. The Club Foray to take place on 
Thursday, October 5th. 
Cryptogamic Society of Scotland. — The Eighth Annual 
Conference will be held at Kenmore, Perthshire, on September 4th 
and following days, under the presidency of Professor J. W. H. 
Trail, M.A., M.D., F.L.S. Fellows who purpose being present 
are requested to communicate as soon as possible with F. Buchanan 
White, Hon. Sec., Perth. — At a meeting of Council held in Aber- 
deen on July 26th, it was unanimously agreed that, in consequence 
of the lamented death of the President, Dr. Dickie, F.R.S ., one of 
the founders of the Society, the meeting and public show arranged 
to take place in Aberdeen should be postponed till another year, and 
that instead a meeting should be held in some central place where 
there would be an opportunity of studying the Cryptogamic Botany 
of the higher hills. — Kenmore may be reached from Aberfeldy, on 
the Highland Railway, or from Killin Station, on the Callander 
and Oban Railway. It is situated at the east end of Loch Tay (on 
which a steamer has now been placed). The immediate neighbour- 
hood has been favourably reported on as presenting a presumably 
rich fungus-flora, while Ben Lawers and other mountains are distant 
only a few miles, as is the celebrated Fortingal yew, supposed to be 
the oldest living tree in Europe. 
MICRO-FUNGI.* 
We are always glad to see well-directed efforts for the spread of 
scientific knowledge, and one of its means is the publication of cheap 
manuals, but the great essential of these is strict accuracy, or the 
injury they cause is proportioned to the extent of their distribution. 
We were quite disposed to welcome a little book on “ Micro- 
fungi,” at one shilling, in which, under each month, an “ Old Col- 
lector ” relates the species most likely to be found and where to 
find them. The idea is a very good one, and, with a little more 
care, might have been successfully carried out. It was hardly to 
have been expected that the erudite author, starting with a Latin 
quotation at page 12, would have permitted seventy-seven Latin 
names to have passed him, in the course of ninety pages, un- 
corrected and inaccurate. The beginner at a study has a right to 
expect that what he is learning will not have to be unlearnt 
again, and that the Latinity to which he is so freely introduced, 
will pass muster. Hence we regret to observe so obvious a mis- 
take as sending out the printer’s proofs with the orthographical 
errors unrevised. This might be tolerated in a local newspaper, 
but hardly in a scientific “ Handbook.” 
* “ Micro-fungi, When and Where to Find Them.” By Thomas Brittain, 
Manchester. 
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