158 
METEOROLOGICAL NOTES.-WAYSIDE NOTES. 
despatched his manuscript to the printers. In these fast-living days 
the number of new discoveries rapidly increases, and it has already 
amounted to about threescore among the Hymenomycetes alone, since 
that apparently rather distant period. Are the mycologists of the north 
so far removed that they receive no tidings of what is being done by 
their brethren of the south ? 
The illustrations of this volume are as good as in the last, but the 
glossary, from which so much was expected, is meagre and decidedly 
disappointing. It seems to have been framed on the principle of 
leaving all the hardest words unexplained, while those which, of course, 
a student of the Hymenomycetes would necessarily be acquainted 
with, such as “ gills,” “ csespitose,” “ annular,” “ crenate,” “ obovate,” 
“ mycelium,” and “ zoned,” are here most carefully embalmed. 
W. B. Grove. 
METEOROLOGICAL NOTES.— April, 1887. 
Atmospheric pressure was variable during the month, and its range 
considerable. The highest reading of the barometer was on the 17th, 
30*691 inches; the lowest, on the 24th, 29*281. Temperature was 
about three degrees below the average, the deficiency being especially 
noticeable in the minimum readings. The highest observed were 
68*0° at Henley-in-Arden, on the 18tli and 19th ; 63*6° at Loughborough, 
on the 12tli ; 63*1° at Hodsock, and 60*8° at Coston Rectory, on the 
18th. In the rays of the sun, 121*7° at Loughborough, on the 6tli, and 
119*4° at Hodsock, on the 24th. The lowest readings were 24*5° at 
Coston Rectory, on the 17th and 30th ; 24-6° at Hodsock, on the 18th ; 
26*0° at Henley-in-Arden, on the loth ; and 28*1° at Loughborough, on 
the 30tli. On the grass, 16*4° at Hodsock, on the 17th, and 22*1° at 
Loughborough, on the loth and 17th. Rainfall was below the average, 
and at some stations the largest portion fell on the 26th. The total 
amounts collected were : Henley-in-Arden, 1*30inches; Loughborough, 
1*15 inches ; Hodsock, 1*01 inches ; Coston Rectory, 0*88 inches. The 
number of “rainy days” varied from 8 to 13. Sunshine above the 
average. North-easterly winds were prevalent. There was a slight 
thunderstorm at Loughborough, in the afternoon of the 23rd, and 
snow fell on the night of the 26tli. 
Wm. Berridge, E.R. Met. Soc. 
12, Victoria Street, Loughborough. 
[Mr. Berridge, we regret to say, iuforms us that he will not in 
future be able to continue the monthly “Meteorological Notes,” 
which for so long have appeared in the “ Midland Naturalist.” 
We take this opportunity of thanking Mr. Berridge for his valuable 
services, which we can assure him have been very heartily appre¬ 
ciated by ourselves and our readers. —Eds. “ Mid. Nat.”] 
♦ 
The Memorial to the late Thomas Edward, the Banff 
Naturalist, has, we much regret to learn, received so little support 
that the proposal is temporarily in abeyance, and the Committee are 
