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MICEOSCOPICAL PREPARATIONS. 
For many years the want has been widely felt of some one with 
a practical knowledge of fungi, and withal expert in their mani- 
pulation, who could prepare for those who were unable to do it for 
themselves, Mycological slides. We have often been applied to 
during the past to indicate such a person, if he could be found, and 
the application has been fruitless. This, however, is no longer the 
case, for we have had the opportunity of examining some of the 
microscopical preparations of fungi which have been produced by 
the Rev. J. E. Vize, of Forden Vicarage, Welshpool, and do not 
hesitate to recommend them to any of our readers who may be in 
search of such aids to study. It may be observed that no small 
advantage results from the manipulator being himself a mycologist, 
consequently the preparations are scientifically and accurately 
named, to say nothing of the neat and business-like manner in 
which the mechanical work of manipulation is performed. Here, 
then, is an excellent opportunity for any one to possess themselves 
of illustrations of the principal genera of microscopical fungi, any 
such a series being manufactured to order. We are also further 
informed that any one who is desirous of doing so may have 
their own material mounted, so that nothing more remains to 
be desired, except it be a reasonable and economical scale of 
charges, which, in this instance also, will be found entirely to their 
satisfaction. We can only hope that such invaluable aids to 
the study of fungi will not be neglected, and that Mr. Vize’s 
unique and artistic preparations will find a place in every Micro- 
scopical Cabinet, whether specially devoted to Mycological subjects 
or not. 
EXOTJC FUNGI IN SCOTLAND. 
We have received from Mr. R. H. Paterson the following 
exotic fungi, which have appeared in the Botanic Gardens at 
Glasgow : — 
Schizophyllum commune. J^r, 
Folyporus sanguineus. Fr. 
Folyporus pergamenus. Fr. 
Stezeum lobatum. Kze. 
Of course, no one would expect them to become “ distinguished 
foreigners permanently resident in this country,” but only accidental 
visitors, Schizophyllum only being excepted. 
