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FUNGUS FORAY 
AT POCKLINGTON, ALLERTHORPE, AND EVERINGHAM, 
SOUTH-EAST YORKSHIRE. 
RGE MASSEE, F.R.M.S., 
Principal pica in the Ae pen iy ‘on Gardens, Kew, 
WITH LIST OF FUNGI COLLECTED. 
CHARLES CROSSLAND, 
Halifax, Mycological Secretary to the Botanical Section of the 
Yorkshire Mebatels Unto 
THE Fungus Forays held under he auspices of the Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ Union doubtless owed their origin to the combined 
influence of three causes—(1) A laudable ambition on the part of 
the Union not to be behind other societies in countenancing 
what was then a fashionable—because somewhat novel—feature of 
the day ; (2) a desire to supplement the somewhat scanty knowledge 
of the mycology of the county ; (3) to meet the desire of a few 
mycological members of the Union for mutual intercourse. 
However, apart from its origin, the stability of the foray as an 
annual event is now firmly established, and the meeting is not only 
considered a red-letter day by Yorkshire mycologists, an sey sO 
by others residing far outside the boundary of the big county. 
The justly-celebrated Hereford Foray, which he woh years 
monopolised the first week in October, and was the universally 
acknowledged meeting-place for exchange of opinion and courteous 
criticism between British and foreign mycologists, has unfortunately 
Tun its course, and it is the hope and ambition of the members of 
the Yorkshire Union that the annual Yorkshire gathering may—by 
avoiding the weak points of its predecessor, which were mainly 
confined to an excess of hospitality—prove at least equally attractive 
and instructive to mycologists. In furtherance of this object no 
efforts are spared; a locality favourable for the object in view 
being selected, and an attractive, and it is to be hoped piesa 
Programme provided, embodying the leading current features 0 
mycological interest, thus enabling everyone to become ae a 
with my latest tendencies and discoveries in connection with the 
subjec 
Tt i is sometimes urged that the best work is not accomplished at 
such gatherings ; this, as a matter of course, depends entirely on 
individual opinion as to what constitutes the best kind of w ork. 
Among the undeniable advantages of such a gathering, two stand 
March 1894. 
