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growing- on the top of a large tuft of Sphagna, which is an 

 additional habitat for this moss to the N. E. Yorkshire List. 



It iis recommended that the Committee be re-elected as 

 follows: — Matthew B. Slater, F. L.S., Malton, chairman ; 

 William Ingham, B.A., York, convener ; Richard Barnes, 

 Harrogate ; Robert Braithwaite, M. f>.. F.L.S., London ; 

 Llewellyn J. Cocks, London ; Charles Crossland, F.L. S., 

 Halifax ; J. J. Marshall, Beverley ; James Needham, Hebden 

 Bridge; and \Vm. West, F.L.S. , Bradford; and that Mr. 

 Ingham be its representative on the Executive Committe of the 

 Union. 



Mycological Committee. — Mr. C. Crosslap.d, F.L.S., 

 the secretary, reports that a great part of the season has been 

 almost a blank so far as the larger fungi are concerned. The 

 low temperature which prevailed during the summer months 

 tended to keep back their development. All districts have been 

 alike affected. A few were met with at the Sedbergh meeting, 

 mostly common species. Mr. Needham reports a great dearth 

 in the Hebden Bridge district. A discomycetc new to Britain 

 has been met with in abundance on the wall of a cellar window 

 area at Halifax, Trachnea finibria/a Quel. Several new 

 things were found at the Eg'ton Bridge Foray, particulars of 

 which will be given in the report. Interest in the study of 

 fungi appears to be increasing. Two students from London 

 have joined the. Union for the express purpose of working with 

 the iVIycolog4cal section in October. A request was made to 

 the Hon. Sec. to take part in a little fora}- at Hull, and to give a 

 " talk " on the subject to the Hull Scientific Society. This was 

 done, and is likel}' to increase the interest taken by several of 

 the members in this branch of Botany. The ^'orkshire Fungus 

 Flora is now completed in MS. It is found that of 

 the 1,200 agarics this county possessed more than two-thirds. 



The Committee ask for re-app(jintment as follows : — 

 G. Massee, F.L.S., \'.M.H., Kew, chairman; C. Crossland, 

 F.L.S., Halifax, convener • W. N. Cheesman, Selby ; 

 .\. Clarke, Huddersfield ; J. VVms. Sutcliffe, Halifax; Thomas 

 Gibbs, Sheffield; j. Needham, Hebden Bridge; C. H. Broad- 

 head, Thongsbridge ; A. I). Cotton, F.L.S., London; and 

 that Mr. Crossland represent the Committee on the Executive 

 of the Union. 



The Yorkshire Fossil Flora Committee.— Mr. Robert 

 Kidslon, F.R.S. !•".., the chairman, rejjorts that the work pro- 

 gresses slowly, and that he hopes at an early date to furm'sh 

 a report containing the additional records for the Yorlcshire 

 Carboniferous Flora. He adds, however, that during the last 

 two years he has received very little assistance from \'<jrkshire 

 geologists. 



