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parcels are liable to prosecution on discovery by the Postmaster-general, this 
means of conveyance is a most cruel one, and one which all true naturalists should 
discourage. White mice, frogs and toads, lizards, and even scorpions and pigeons, 
have at times been discovered in the post ; and I write to ask Selbornians, whose 
great object is to prevent cruelty, in any shape, to use their influence to prev'ent the 
cruelty which is occasioned living creatures on their passage through the none too 
tender mercies of the post. 
E. A. M. 
The Memorial to Richard Jefferies in Salisbury Cathedral was un- 
veiled by the Bishop of the diocese on Wednesday, March 9th. We are com- 
pelled to hold over until our next issue an account of the proceedings. 
NATURAL PIISTORY NOTES AND QUERIES. 
English Plant Names. — .Seven years have passed since the English 
Dialect Society issued the third and last volume of the Dictionary of English 
J'lant Names. The compilers then congratulated themselves that their work was 
fairly exhaustive ; but it is the nature of a work of that kind to be never quite com- 
plete, and after the lapse of seven years they are compelled to acknowledge that 
the Dictionary upon which they bestowed so much time and labour is no excep- 
tion to the rule. During the last seven years new plant names have come to hand 
from various sources. iNIany names which are not to be found in the Dictionary at 
all, and much ailditional information respecting names already included therein 
have been collected, and the time, therefore, appears to have arrived when a .Sup- 
plement has become desirable, and indeed necessary ; and the authors are now 
engaged in com]5iling such a Supplement from the materials that have already 
reached them. They by no means regret this, because they have always desired 
that their book should be as complete and therefore as useful to students as pos- 
sible, and to render it so by means of the proposed supplementary volume they 
desire to make an earnest appeal for help to all who take an interest in the subject. 
Lists of plant names w'hich are not already recorded in the Dictionary, or which 
are used in other counties than those already named, and especially names used in 
the counties of Durham and Northumberland, which are as yet not very nume- 
rously represented, will be acceptable, and will be gratefully acknowledged. Such 
lists may he sent to the Editor of this Journal, 18, West Square, London, S.E. 
Drawings of Fungi at the Natural History Museum.— The very 
useful exhibition of British Plants at the Natural History Museum in Cromwell 
Road, has received an addition of great interest and beauty in the series of draw- 
ings representing the British Fungi. The intention in making this exhibition, as 
a whole, is to illustrate completely with specimens the British flora, and this has 
been done so fir as the Mosses. The great difficulty in making a corresponding 
exhibition of the larger Fungi, owing to the loss of colour and form in drying, has 
been met by the bold expedient of a complete series of drawings. Mr. Worthing- 
ton .Smith, whose double qualification for the task as an artist and a mycologist 
is well known, undertook to carry out this great work, and the fruit of months of 
work has now been placed in the gallery of the Department of Botany, in the shape 
of coloured drawings of some six hundred species. As the work advances the 
exhibition will keep pace with it, but sufficient has already been done to enable 
visitors to judge of the excellence of the performance. 
The drawings are made on large sheets containing each a varying number of 
species, and these are hung in frames moving on hinges round a pdlar, as in the cases 
of flowering plants. It is intended to illustrate all the British Basidiomycetes in this 
fashion, and when complete there will be about one hundred of the sheets. The 
lower Fungi are to be exhibited in the form of specimens, with generic illustrations 
—a work, advancing side by side with this, entrusted to Mr. George .Massee. The 
Museum posses.ses a very extensive series of drawings of Fungi by Mr. Worthington 
Smith, acquired for the most part about fifteen years ago ; and this series, kept for 
