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should have anything to do with the uredo rubigo of the wheat, or 
with the puccinia, seemed too absurd a notion to be at all credible. 
Nevertheless, changes as strange do occur in other cases, and the 
forms and stages through which some of the fungi pass should at 
least lead us to give a fair hearing even to the enunciation of the 
most startling notions, provided they are made by persons whose 
attainments are such as to warrant us in placing some confidence 
in their judgment. Few things in nature, for instance, can be 
more unlike than the fleshy orange-coloured fungus so often found 
on the savin (podisoma juniperi sabinse), and the small crisp, flask- 
like fungus which appears on the leaves of pears (roestelia cancel- 
lata), yet it was shown by Professor Oersted, of Copenhagen, that 
the one is but a form of the other. The Danish professor, as we 
have previously recorded, proved this by inoculating the pear with 
the fungus of the savin. Naturally the statement was received with 
incredulity, and requires the concurrent testimony of many wit- 
nesses before it can be definitely accepted. One such witness is M. 
Roze, who repeated Oersted’s experiments with success. Last May 
we had an opportunity of seeing in Paris another case of the same 
nature, in which the French botanist just named had succeeded in 
inducing the presence on the hawthorn of roestelia (secidium) lace- 
rata, by placing on the young shoots the minute spores of another 
fleshy fungus commonly found on the juniper, viz. podisoma cla- 
variseforme. — The ' Gardener's Chronicle . 
OBITUARY. 
We regret to have to record the death of Mr. W. Cheeseman, 
M.R.C.V.S, Wandsworth, in the 60th year of his age. His diploma 
bears date November 27th, 1832. Mr. Cheeseman served the office 
of Member of the Council, and also Vice-President of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
To this we have to add the death of Mr. Edward Hardman Whit- 
worth, Bolton, Lancashire. His diploma bears date April 30th, 1867. 
And also of Mr. Archibald Duncan, of Colingsburgh, Fifeshire. 
His diploma bears date April 18th, 1834. 
ERRATA. 
June No., page 446, line 30, for “President of the Veterinary Society,” 
read “ Principal Veterinary Surgeon.” 
July No., page 469, line 9, for “Fleming’s tonic aconite,” read “Flem- 
ing’s tincture of aconite and in line 40, for “hydrochloric 
acid,” read “ hydrocyanic acid.” 
„ page 482, sixth line from the bottom, for “Mr. Steele,” 
read “ Mr. Hoole.” 
