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Notes and Comments. 
NATURALISTS AND CAMERAS IN WAR TIME. 
In Professor Oliver’s Report on Blakeney Point, appearing 
in the Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ 
Society recently received, we notice the following ‘ The use 
of cameras on the Point was, of course, strictly forbidden, 
and the instruments if discovered were liable to confiscation. 
People who wanted to take photographs, however, soon found 
a way of circumventing this regulation. The Guard, in their 
exile from civilisation, were always in a chronic state of 
hunger for papers and magazines, and have been known to 
break into unoccupied huts in search for fresh reading matter. 
It was found that by dumping an armful of “ John Bulls,” 
“ Strands,” etc., in the Guard Room, several hours could be 
secured free from all risk of disturbance, during which plates 
and films could be exposed with perfect impunity.’ 
BRITISH MYCOLOGISTS. 
Among the contents of the Transactions of the British 
Mycological Society for 1920, recently issued, we notice 
‘ Studies in Entomogenous Fungi by T. Fetch ; ‘ The 
Imperial Bureau of Mycology,’ by E. J. Butler; ‘An In- 
vestigation of some Tomato Diseases,’ by F. T. Brooks and 
G. O. Searle ; and ‘ Homothallism and the Production of 
Fruit-Bodies by Monosporous Mycelia in the Genus Coprinusf 
by Miss I. Mounce. Mr. Petch ’s contribution is illustrated 
by some of the most beautiful coloured plates we have seen 
for some time. In the same publication, Mr. R. L. Collett 
records a case of the persistence of life in the spores or mycelium 
of a Hyphomycete kept as a museum specimen for sixty -seven 
years. 
LINNEAN HERBARIUM. 
At a recent meeting of the Linnean Society, the General 
Secretary, Dr. B. D. Jackson, gave an account of the recent ly- 
completed Catalogue of the Linnean Herbarium. He stated 
that his first reference to the Herbarium was made nearly 50 
years ago, when he found that Mr. A. Kippist, at that time 
Libarian, could not explain certain signs employed by Lin- 
naeus, the meaning of which had been lost. The speaker’s 
first published contribution to a knowledge of the herbarium 
was made in 1888, when he was commissioned by the President, 
Mr. W. Carruthers, to draw up an account of the growth of 
the collections, their purchase by Dr. J. E. Smith, and lastly, 
their acquisition and tenure by the Society. In turn followed 
an account of the Banksian desiderata supplied from the 
Linnean stores ; the List of the genera with the number of 
sheets in each, and the Index issued in 1913. A diversion 
to the zoological collection came to publication in the next 
year ; then Tulbagh’s considerable collection in 1918, a$d 
finally the present MS., which has taken more than two years 
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