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THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION AT 
COXWOLD AND BYLAND. 
Tue closing excursion of the year extended over two days, the first 
being specially devoted to the F ungus Foray, now an annual event 
in Yorkshire, and the second day to the ordinary excursion. 
The Fungus F oray, held on the Castle Howard estate, by kind 
permission of the Earl of Carlisle, proved the most successful which 
has been yet held in Yorkshire, thanks to the favourable character 
of the weather, the invaluable presence and assistance of Mr. George 
Massee, F.R.M.S., and Mr. M. C. Cooke, M.A., LL.D., A.L.S., and 
the hearty co-operation and presence of nearly all the Yorkshire 
students of mycology. A full account of it (from the pen of Mr. 
Massee) will be given as a separate article in our December number. 
The second day’s proceedings were as usual devoted to one of 
the ordinary excursions of the Union, and formed the last outing of 
the year. This meeting was also the hundredth in the history of the 
Union, and was most successful. The attendance was very good, 
and nearly all departments of Natural Science were efficiently 
represented ; altogether the excursion was to be regarded as much 
above the average in point of results achieved. The locality 
selected was stated by one member to be about as well known as 
Central Africa, but at the close of the day’s proceedings this reproach 
was hardly so applicable. Coxwold (the birthplace of Sterne’s 
immortal work ‘ Tristram Shandy ’) had been fixed as the rendezvous, 
the district under investigation extending to the nearest summits of 
the Hambleton Hills and the woods clothing their slopes, together 
with the parks at Newburgh and Gilling, and included Byland Abbey. 
Nov. 1892. 
