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3n flDemoriam. 



GEORGE MASSEE, F.L.S., V.M.H. 



(1850—1917). 



The thinning ranks of Yorkshire naturalists are still receiving 

 losses of exceptional severity. In recent months our pages 

 have recorded the decease of many prominent workers. To 

 the list must now be added the name of George Massee, through 



Photo by] 



George Massee. 



[Miss Ivy Massee. 



whose enthusiasm and hard work the Yorkshire Mycological 

 Committee came to be, carried out its several years of useful 

 work, and published the first county Fungus Flora ever prepared. 

 Each year, for years, he regularly gave much of his valuable time 

 in investigating the mycological flora of the areas worked by 

 this committee ; they were no ' pleasure trips ' to him, and his 

 assiduous labours in collecting and identifying specimens, in 

 assisting other workers, and in giving popular lectures, will 

 long be remembered by those who had the privilege to benefit 

 thereby. 



1917 April 1. 



