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the Epping district. After giving particulars of the botanical characters of some
of the species found Dr. Cooke alluded to the two great fungological events of
the year, viz., the completion of Saccardo's "Sylloge Fungorum ominium
hucusque cognitorum," in eight volumes, in which work are enumerated no less
than 31,927 species of fungi, and the completion of his own "Illustrations oi
British Fungi," also in eight volumes, consisting of over 1,200 coloured plates,
drawn by himself, of species of Hymenomycetous Fungi found in Britain.
Prof. Meldola heartily congratulated Dr. Cooke on the completion of his
great work, which, he said, should certainly be in the hands of every mycologist.
Prof. Boulger reported briefly on the Flowering Plants of Hatfield Forest
(ante, p. 222), and said that the late Mr. Gibson in his "Flora" had made a very
complete list of the species found there.
Mr. George Massee was announced to read a paper on "The Gradual Evolu-
tion of a New Order of Fungi," but owing to the lateness of the hour and the
fact that he had a long railway journey before him Mr. Massee was unable to
perform his part of the programme.
In Hatfield Forest.
Cordial votes of thanks were passed to Mr. J. Archer Houblon for permission
to visit the forest, to the Conductors, Dr. Cooke, Mr. G. Massee, Prof. Boulger,
Mr. E. M. Holmes, and to Mr, G. E. Pritchett.
The exhibition of Fungi, which was arranged in the court-room of the inn,
was necessarily very poor. Mr. E. M. Holmes sent the specimens of lichens and
mosses observed (ante, pp. 220-21). A collection of Land and Fresh-water Mollusca,
found in the neighbourhood of Bishop Stortford, was shown by E. G. Ingold
(vide his paper, pp. 215-17), who also exhibited some local geological specimens.
Mr. G. E. Pritchett, F.S.A., exhibited a very interesting series of local antiquities ;
Prof. Boulger a number of botanical specimens, also a series of coloured draw-
ings of birds, plants, &c., from the Falkland Islands, sketched from nature by the
late Thomas Havers. Mr. Fitch exhibited a living specimen of the Cardinal
Spider (Tegenaria guyonii) from Maldon (vide E.N. iv. p. 20) ; also a living larva
of the hemipteron, Reduvius personatus, from Roxwell, a great enemy of the com-
mon bed-bug; living larvae of the Glowworm (Lampyris noctiluca) from
Hazeleigh Wood, which were feeding voraciously upon snails. Also some fungi