
226 THE NORTHERN MICROSCOPIST. 
Catalogue. Mr. Pearson also exhibited specimens of AZya Taylori with 
colesules collected by Mr. Geo. Stabler in Mardale. 
Mr. J. W. Atkinson exhibited specimens of micro-fungus Wectria mammoidea, 
a recent species not described in Cooke’s Handbook. The specimens had been 
found on the dead stems of the Furze at Bowness, Windermere, May, 1882. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Ponp Lire.—It may interest some Northern Microscopists to 
know that very fine specimens of Melicerta ringens may be found in 
great abundance in Germine Lake, at the foot of the Hambleton 
Hills, about five miles from Thirsk. It will be found on AZprio- 
phyllum spicatum, on the east side of the lake. 
J. NooKTHROP. 
INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE.—The temperature which seems 
most favourable to the bacterium of the disease called charbon, is 
thatof mammalia (37°C.). Birds, having a higher temperature (about 
42°), do not take the diseases under ordinary conditions. M. Pas- 
teur, however, has developed it in fowls by lowering the temperature 
(keeping the feet in cold water). M. Gibier has now experimented 
with frogs, and finds that they “do not suffer after inoculation in 
the normal state; but if kept, after being inoculated, in water at 
about 37°, they may take the disease (five out of twenty did—most 
of the others died soon after immersion). The bacteria developed 
were remarkable for their great length, and this is attributed to the 
slowness of the circulation. 
THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD AGAIN.—The Manchester Lvening 
News of July 5th contained the following :— 
Mr. Barty said he should like to know from the chairman of 
the Waterworks Committee what was the cause of the water 
supplied by the Corporation smelling and tasting very disagreeably 
at times. He knew one family in his neighbourhood who were, 
with one exception, water drinkers, yet they had been compelled 
by the bad state of the water to drink other liquids. (Cries of 
“Shame!” followed by laughter.) 
Mr. Alderman ParTTEson stated that the complaints were from 
people using the water coming from the Gorton reservoir. The 
committee were now taking the sludge out of that reservoir and 
putting lime into it, but why the water should have smelt so badly 
the committee could not make out. They had been greatly 
bothered by the matter. The opinion of a scientific man had been 
obtained, who stated that the water was not injurious ; nevertheless 

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