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BRITISH MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY NOTICES

GASTEROMYCETE MAPPING

The Recording Sub-committee of the Foray Committee was set up to investigatesystematic recording of various groups of the Fungi to assist with fungus map-ping by the Biological Records Centre. As a start a scheme is being initiatedto record and map non-hypogeous Gasteromycetes.

All records with details of locality, date of collection, name of collector,number of 10 km square of National Grid (or Irish grid if appropriate) andlocation of herbarium material (if any) will be welcomed by the convenor of thescheme Dr Bruce Ing, Chester College, Chester. Please do not send specimens!

Old records, newspaper reports of giant puffballs and literature recordswill all be included. Old records refer to those made before 1960 and will beindicated as such on the maps.

A Check List and a preliminary key are now available. When the key hasbeen tested out it will be published in the Bulletin.

SLIDE COLLECTION

Will intending borrowers please note that after 30 November 1980 all corres-pondence about the collection should be sent to Margaret Holden at 47 Ox Lane,Harpenden AL5 4HF and not to Rothamsted Experimental Station as she willno longer be there. Failure to take note of this may mean that you do not getthe slides for your lecture!

The collection continues to grow and a revised list of transparenciesavailable will be published in the Spring 1981 number of the Bulletin. TheSlide Committee has at last finished viewing the slides left to the B.M.S. byStanly Porter. Because he usually took several slightly different photographsof a subject we now have many more near-duplicate transparencies available ofspecies that are frequently asked for.

GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE FOR THE IDENTIFICATIONOF BRITISH FUNGI

The third edition of the Guide was published in 1975 in Bulletin volume 9. Thestock of reprints is now nearly used up and a new edition is planned for Autumn1981. Margaret Holden, 47 Ox Lane, Harpenden AL5 4HF, would be pleased tohear from anyone who would like to help with its preparation. Sections ondifferent groups of fungi need to be brought up-to-date. If particular books orpapers have been found especially helpful a note about these would be appreci-ated. Details of books or major taxonomic papers in the press would also bewelcome.

BOOKS MISSING FROM THE FORAY BOXES

Would members please look through their libraries of mycological books forthe following books. They are missing from the Foray Boxes and may have been

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picked up with their own books by absent-minded forayers. Return please toJack Marriott, Admiral House, Hollingbourne, Maidstone, Kent. No questionsasked or fines levied!

Nannenga-Bremekamp, Notes on Myxomycetes, I-XVIII" " Annotated List of Myxomycetes, 3 lists

& Gottsberger, A new species of Didymiumfrom Brazil

Pearson, Monograph on Russula" Monograph on Mycena

Monograph on LactariusPilat, Ubersicht der Europaischen ClavariaceenRayner, Key to the British species of Russula