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the power or powers that be which caused such a volume to 
be published in its present form. It is a waste of money, and 
we sincerely trust that in future parts, the subject index will 
appear, and that instructions will also be given for a subject 
index to be issued for the list just to hand. If the question 
of funds is the excuse, then the best thing is not to publish 
the lists at all, and save even more money. Quite recently 
we received the list for 1913, which was properly indexed. 
We believe that the lists for 1915 -1919 are in preparation, 
query, with indexes. Has 1914 been forgotten ? 
A FUNGUS FORAY. 
Some years ago the following note was sent to us by a 
Barnsley visitor to one of the excursions of the Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ Union. It was held over for a reason which, we 
regret to say, does not now obtain. He signed himself ‘ Myco 
Fuizeball,’ and gave the following account of * T’ Fuizeball 
an’ t’ Tooadstoil collectors at Grimethorpe,’ in local dialect : — 
‘ E’ first plaace it’l be nessersary for ma to exsplane thet 
amung swarm fra Barnsler wor horf er duzen charming ladies 
fru t’ adjesent naberhood o’ Pogmoor, an wot tha went for a ’ll 
tell yer. Amung gang on em wor a nice little chap wi a box 
hat on is heead an a tin bacca box in is hand. Ahr forgew his 
naame, but ther wur sum funny canibalising letters at end 
on’t. Ohnyhar wi cressened im t’ fungey man, an by gum wi 
worn’t far wrang. E’ wor getherin all soorts o’ tooadstoils, 
so’h to be e’t fashon t’ ladies serr of ter help im to feend em ; 
tha’ scoured thru t’ Lady Wood an’ t’ New Park Spring Wood, 
an be time they met together agenn they fairley mazzeled fellow 
wi’ t’ various sooarts tha’a fon, which at seet on em is een 
fairley glissened ; soa then e cahred hisen darn on t’ gress. 
Wi a crawd raand him e’ started wi is nomany, calling em all 
t’ owdaceous names e could rip aart — t’ fungie ahr meean, 
not t’ ladies. Iverybody wor dumfahnded. Sum e niver seen 
afore, an sed tha wor probabler new to sihense ; at ony rate 
unknown e’ that part o’ t’ caarnty. They’d broat im enuff 
ter set up a mewseam wi, and then e’ kongratulated t’ ladies 
for thear efforts, aftereds he purrem in is box to tak hoam. 
Wun o’ t’ party axed if e het em wen e’ got hoam? “ Noa,” 
e’ sed ; " ahr leeave it t’ wife as ter wether thaa reight er not, 
as’t want to cum ageen.” Iverybody wur soa interested t’ 
opinion wor expressed that e should show at wun of t’ Barnsler 
Sosiety’s meetin’s wi t’ lantern, an then noa daart it e’d be t’ 
meeans o’ gettin sum o’ t’ members to tak up fungi getherin.’ 
A SWAN IN A mare’s NEST. 
In Mr. J. H. Gurney’s ‘ Early Annals of Ornithology,’ 1921, 
page 7 1, there is an illustration (reproduced in The Naturalist 
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