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Soppitt Memorial Library. — A very valuable addition has been 

 made to the library during the year in the shape of the MSS. of 

 Massee and Crossland's " Fungus Flora of Yorkshire." These 

 contain all the records on which the Flora is based ; also thousands 

 of detailed records of which only a general and summarised state- 

 ment was published. The volumes will therefore be invaluable 

 for reference, and for purposes of future local floras. For such a 

 purpose the MSS. were given to Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, and 

 finding them so valuable in this respect, he and Mr. E. J. T. Ingle 

 had them bound in six volumes. These are rendered still more 

 valuable in that they have pasted the printed slip for each species 

 to face the MS. on which it was founded. Our thanks are extended 

 to Messrs. Massee and Crossland, and also to Messrs. Roebuck and 

 Ingle, for the MSS., and their preservation in this convenient 

 form. 



Correction : — In the Soppitt Library report for last year 

 delete the comma between the words " Farnley Tyas," and the 

 last two lines should read thus " — varieties ; " The Study of Fungi 

 in Yorkshire " ; " Plants of Pecket Wood " ; and " An i8th 

 Century Naturalist : (= James Bolton, Hahfax)." 



British Association. — Mr. Sheppard attended the meeting of 

 the British Association, but on account of someone having blun- 

 dered, no announcement was made of the first meeting of the 

 Committee of Delegates from Corresponding Societies (which was 

 held on the first day, the journals for which were " off "), and 

 consequently it was badly attended. He left the meeting before 

 the second Conference of Delegates, and consequently has nothing 

 to report. 



" The Naturalist " has been regularly published, and by having 

 more lines to a page, it has been possible this year to include all 

 the suitable articles and notes submitted without having addi- 

 tional pages. 



Secretariate.' — At the recent meeting of the Executive, the 

 following letter was read: — "I beg to tender my resignation 

 as Hon. Secretary. During the nine years I have held the 

 office, the Union has continued its excellent work in the 

 county, and besides the various meetings and excursions 

 which have been held, steps have been taken to complete the 

 numerous memoirs which had previously been in various stages 

 of incompleteness. In this way Baker's " North Yorkshire," 

 Massee and Crossland's " Fungus Flora," the second edition of 

 Porritt's " Lepidoptera," and " The Birds of Yorkshire " have 

 been completed and published. In addition, two parts of the 

 Transactions (Miscellaneous Series) have been issued, containing 

 the Annual Reports, Reports of Fungus Forays, Geological 

 Bibliographies, and reprints of excursion programmes. The cost 

 of the printing and publication of these monographs, etc., in the 



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