Inland FisheriesFifth Annual Report of the Commissioners on Inland Fisheries.

no relation to any other individual, by this means. The change of opinion amongst mycologists is manifested, as much as anything, in the new terms, or the appropriation of terms from other cryptogams, now in vogue. Conidia, spermatia, oospores, zoospores, pycnidia, protospores, etc., all relate to organs but recently recognized in fangi. And however much we may qualify the fact, however much we may doubt the evidence in special cases, we cannot ignore the conclusion that reproduction is very complicated, although very little understood in these extraordinary plants. Whilst admitting that the Cladosporium and the Macrosporium, the Alternaria, bottle-shaped cysts, and minute spermatia are all so intimately related with a certain species of Sphkeria, that they can no longer be regarded as plants with a distinct autonomy and independent existence, we are unable to explain the relations which one bears to the other, or by'what means each exerts its influence. The field for observation and research is a large one and promises a rich reward; all that is required is earnest and careful workers, in which this, of all European countries professing to be scientific, has hitherto been most lamentably deficient. How long shall such a reproach continue ?-Popular Science Review.