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the limestone plateau at Moughton. An investigation has 

 also been commenced on the development of the vegetation 

 in seven selected turbary pools on Austwick Moss, in which 

 Mr. W. H. Burrell and Mr. C. A. Cheetham are taking keen 

 interest. Preliminary notes on this work have appeared in 

 The Naturalist for August and November. 



Bryology. — Mr. W. Ingham B.A. writes : — Mr. C. A. 

 Cheetham has added Trichostomum nitidum to v.c. 64 at 

 Austwick. Mr. W. Bellerby has added Sphagnum batumense 

 to Yorkshire, found at Goathland. 



Mr. W. Ingham has added Sphagnum auriculatum var. 

 ovatum found at Little Beck, v.c. 62 and Philonotis caespitosa, 

 var. orthophylla, Lske. (Saltersgate Beck, v.c. 62) S.imbricatum 

 var. affine (Arncliffe Wood, v.c. 62) to Yorkshire. He also 

 found S. pulchrum in Fen Bog, near Goathland, v.c. 62. 



Mycology. — Mr. A. E. Peck writes :— The Mycological 

 Committee has been officially represented at all the Meetings 

 of the Union held during the year. Reports will be found in 

 The Naturalist for August, 1916, pages 266, 270, 299 and 303. 



The Annual Foray was held at Buckden in Wharfedale, 

 from September 23-28 and was well attended. Large numbers 

 of species were obtained, some of which were new to Britain, 

 and several were additional records for Yorkshire, of which- 

 an account will duly appear in The Naturalist. 



The Naturalist of January, 1916, page 19, contains a note 

 by Mr. Massee respecting the Stinkhorn, Ithyphallus impud- 

 icus and its occasional occurrence bearing a veil. Oddly this 

 feature has again been noted by Mr. Peck on a specimen 

 growing at Cloughton, September 1916. In The Naturalist, 

 June, 1916, Mr. A. R. Sanderson gives a list of Mycetozoa 

 noticed by him in 1915, two of which are new to Yorkshire. 



GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 



Geological Section. — Messrs. J. Holmes and C. Bradshaw 

 report : — The postponement of the Bank Holidays prevented 

 many members from attending the Middleham and Wentbridge 

 meetings. 



At Malton, quarries in the Oolitic Limestone were visited 

 and typical fossils collected. Glacial problems of the district 

 also received attention. At Bolton, the limestones, shales, 

 and grits of the Wharfe Valley were examined with interesting 

 results. 



At Driffield, a visit was paid to the Chalk quarries, and 



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