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METEOROLOGICAL NOTES.— May, 1886. 
The mercurial column was high at the commencement of the 
month, 30-463ins. on the 5th, but fell steadily till the 13th, when the 
reading was 29*262ins„ after which it underwent various fluctuations 
till the end of the month. The range of temperature was remarkably 
uniform for the first ten days, the mean gradually ascending till the 
7th, when a maximum of 75-3° was registered at Loughborough, and 
71 , 8° at Coston Rectory; while at Henley-in-Arden 76-0° was recorded 
on the 6tli. In the rays of the sun, at Loughborough, the highest 
reading was 132-2° on the 5tli. The difference between the maximum 
readings on the lOtli and 11th was 19 degrees. The temperature was 
generally low for the remainder of the month. The lowest readings 
occurred on the 1st, and were 26 - 0° at Coston Rectory ; 29'0° at Henley- 
in-Arden ; and 30 - 3° at Loughborough. The mean temperature was 
about one degree above the average, the warm weather of the 5th, 6tli, 
and 7th contributing to what would have been otherwise a great 
deficiency. May is remarkable for its rainfall, for, although the first 
nine days were dry, the total for the month was three inches above the 
average. The greatest fall was at Henley on the 12th, l-75in., at 
Loughborough l-39ins., and at Coston Rectory 0-97 of an inch on the 
13th. At Loughborough the total value for the 12tli and 13th was 
2-20ms., and for the whole month 5T6ins., while at Henley the total 
was 5-66ins., and at Coston Rectory 4-50ins. This is by far the 
heaviest rainfall in May for the past eight years; and great floods re¬ 
sulted, from which much damage was done to growing crops and other 
property. 
Wm. Berridge, F. R. Met. Soc. 
12, Victoria Street, Loughborough. 
Hymenomycetes Britannici: British Fungi (Hymenomycetes). By Rev. 
John Stevenson. Vol. I. Wm. Blackwood and Sons, 1886. 
The first volume of this long-looked-for work has now appeared. In 
regard to the known British Hymenomycetes, the “Handbook” has 
been for some time very defective ; how much so can be seen from the 
simple statement that there were contained in it 452 species of the 
genus Agaricus, while the number in the work now published amounts 
to 782 species of the same genus. Besides Agaricus, the present 
volume contains the two succeeding genera, Coprinus and Bolbitius ; 
and the second volume, which will comprise the remainder of the 
Hymenomycetes, is promised at an early date. It is not too much to 
say that these two volumes will be absolutely indispensable to every 
student of the gilled Fungi in this country. They form the necessary 
