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FUNGUS FORAY AT HAREWOOD AND EAST KESWICK. 
CHARLES CROSSLAND, 
Halifax; Hon, Sec. Yorkshire Mycological Committee, 
THE closing excursion of 1898, held Sept. roth: aria 12th, was 
devoted chiefly to the annual Fungus Fora The district 
explored was mostly within the borders of the magnificent 
estates owned by the Earl of Harewood. Permission had been 
kindly granted by his Lordship to the members of the Union. 
It is just a decade since a most successful foray took place in 
the same locality (see ‘Naturalist,’ Nov. 1888, pp. 321-329). This 
time—-owing to the foresight of Mr. John Waddington and 
Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, neither of whom spared any pains 
in making the general arrangements for the carrying out of the 
foray—the members of the Mycological Committee were located 
at a farm-house in the pleasant village of East Keswick. At 
this cosy place, situated near the ground to be worked, there 
Was a convenient room in which to work out the species 
collected, and the farm and the garden furnished a number of 
species to begin with. Messrs. A. Clarke, H. T. Soppitt, and the 
writer billeted at the same place the previous week-end, when, 
as a preliminary, a good number of species found about East 
Keswick and Harewood Avenue were determined. 
On the Saturday morning, roth September, the party, including 
Messrs. A. Clarke, Huddersfield ; J. Needham, Hebden Bridge ; 
W. B. Crump, M.A., Halifax; H. E. Wroot, Bradford; and 
J. Hemingway, Dewsbury, met at Bardsey Station and drove 
forward to Harewood village. Messrs. H. T. Soppitt and 
U. Bairstow, Halifax, arrived later in the day. Unfortunately 
Mr. G. Massee, of the Royal Herbarium, Kew, was unable to 
attend. His presence and valuable assistance was greatly 
missed. It is the first time this foremost of British mycologists 
has been absent from a Yorkshire foray. Several other myco- 
logists who had been invited had written ni raed regret at 
not being able to come 
At the lodge gates one of the foresters was in waiting to act 
as guide. The north-eastern portion of the park was selected © 
for this day’s investigation. The previous three weeks of dry 
weather had prepared the party to expect a scarcity of the 
larger and more prominent species of fungi. This expectation 
was soon realised; the parklands as well as the woodlands were — 
found to be almost destitute of this class. However, having 
gone with a determination to make the very best use of the 
opportunity and the time, it was decided to turn specially to the _ 
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