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MYCOLOGICAL MEETING AT SANDSEND. 
C. CROSSLAND, 
Halifax. 
(PLATE I.). 
THe Twenty-fourth Annual Mycological meeting was _ held 
at Sandsend, near Whitby, September 28th to October 3rd ; 
permission to look through Mulgrave woods, parks and pastures 
having again been very kindly granted by the Rev. the Marquis 
of Normanby. We are also once more much indebted to the 
Rev. W. G. Harland for allowing us the use of the schoolrooms 
at Sandsend, Monday to Wednesday. The President and 
seventeen members of the Union, including all the Mycological 
Committee, with the exception of Mr. J. W. H. Johnson, 
attended. There were also Miss Ivy Massee, Kew, and Mr. 
Sharples, formerly of Burnley, recently appointed to a Govern- 
ment Mycological post in Malay. 
Mr. and Miss Massee, Mr. Clarke, Mr. Sharples, and one or 
two other friends arrived on the Friday, and on Saturday had 
a fine, full day in the woods and pastures. They made up 
some good baskets, among the specimens being several species 
of more than ordinary interest, which were shown to the new 
arrivals on Saturday afternoon. 
Mr. Massee’s address on ‘ Mycology, New and Old,’ a short 
abstract of which appeared in the December issue, pp. 366-7, 
was given in the evening. Rather than overcrowd the opening 
night, Mr. Clarke agreed to hold over his paper on ‘ The Genus 
Tricholoma,’ to another day ; see loc. cit. pp. 364-5. 
Monday was wet, and acted as a deterrent to collecting, 
yet a few of the younger members ventured into the woods 
while the older kept inside and worked out the material already 
gathered. 
Mr. Wager’s paper on ‘The Sexuality of the Fungi,’ 
illustrated by the lantern was given in the evening. For short 
abstract, see The Naturalist, November, p. 328; and for 
abstract of Mr. Mason’s paper entitled ‘Some notes on the 
Yeast Fungi,’ see pp. 13-16 hereof. 
Mr. A. E. Peck, Scarborough, an adept in the art of 
fungus and other photography, threw on the screen about 
150 slides, mostly representing agarics. Their finish is all 
that can be desired in black and white. It was however, 
suggested to Mr. Peck that the addition of sections showing the 
thickness, or thinness of the flesh of the pileus, thickness and 
substance of stem, depth of gill and its attachment to, or 
freeness from, the stem, would greatly add to the scientific 
value of the slides. 
On Tuesday, Mr. Cheesman discoursed on ‘ The Capillitium 
of the Mycetozoa,’ aided by a series of large diagrams illustrating 
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