the locality and habitat, All material should be carefully gathered, and 
brought in good condition. 
Excursions. On Friday, July 15th, a party will leave the Union 
Station at 12.40 for Lynn Woods. Expense small. 
Notices of other excursions will be published in the Boston Transcript 
in the southeast corner of the editorial page. The size of the Club 
makes individual notices too expensive. But the Secretary will send 
special word to any member who will send him an addressed card. 
Bulletins. Although the bulletins are delayed, the plan of issuing 
six has not been given up. A price of 50 cents has been fixed for the 
bulletins of 1897; nos. 2-5 can be supplied. Every member should have 
received a copy of Bull. No. 15, of the Division of Vegetable Physiology 
and Pathology, U. S. Dep’t of Agriculture. Those who do not get it 
should send an individual personal request to the Department at Wash¬ 
ington. The same advice may be given regarding Farmers’ Bulletin No. 
53. Of these the former contains an illustrated article by Dr. Farlow on 
“Some Edible and Poisonous Fungi,” the latter is on “The Cultivation 
of Mushrooms.” 
A Club Herbarium. Under the care of Miss Noyes a nucleus for an 
herbarium has been formed, and a principal object of the year will be to 
add to this nucleus. The attempt will be made to preserve the interesting 
forms which appear at the exhibitions, particularly those whose determi¬ 
nation is impossible or uncertain. Of these plants full notes will be 
kept. Exhibition specimens of typical forms will also be made for use 
at the winter lectures. 
Those who feel that they can assist in this work and contribute to the 
Club Herbarium are requested to write to the secretary. Full directions 
for collection and preservation can be had nowhere better than in an 
article by Dr. Edward A. Burt in the Botanical Gazette for March of this 
year. A reprint of this is published by the Botanical Supply Co., Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass., at 25c. Information as to preservation in alcohol or 
formalin will be sent to those who wish it. 
Members collecting in Vermont or New Hampshire have cordial per¬ 
mission from Dr. Burt to send fungi to him for identification. He is 
particularly anxious to get notes, always accompanied by specimens, 
dried if necessary, of the occurrence of fungi in Vermont, for he is 
compiling a state list. His address is Middlebury, Vermont. 
The Botanical Supply Co. have kindly given the Mycological Club for 
the present table and shelf room for herbarium work. Members in reach 
of Cambridge will find a visit to the Club Herbarium interesting, 
although the exhibit is at present small. With this can be combined a 
visit to the University Museum on Oxford St. where a fine representative 
exhibition of typical fungi and other cryptogamic plants is now being 
put in place on the first floor. 
It has been suggested that much valuable photographic work can be 
done by members during the summer. The results could go towards a 
club collection, would give material for additional lantern-slides and pos¬ 
sibly for a series of photogravures similar to those made by Mr. Lloyd 
of Cincinnati, if it should seem wise to embark on such an undertaking. 
The secretary would be glad to hear from those interested to do photo¬ 
graphic work. If enough members reply, it will probably seem well to 
put the matter in the hands of a committee to systematize the work and 
prevent duplication. 
Finances. These matters and others which suggest themselves point 
to ways of usefulness and activity as yet untried by the club as a 
