<)3 C/'Jssla i.i : The Sliidy of Fungi in Yoyk'iJiire. 



nccasionall}/ exhibited micro-fungi at the meetings of the Hud- 

 dersfield Society. 



The hst of South Yorkshire Fungi in Dr. Avehng's ' History 

 of Roche Abbey,' 1870, is by John Bohler, a Derbyshire artizan 

 stocking weaver. Bohler's early tastes led him to gather 

 Dlants ; later, he collected medicinal plants ; he then took up 

 the science of plant study, and became an expert field-botanist 

 and microscopist. He made a special study of lichens. x\bout 

 t86o, he explored Snowden, and adjacent mountains and hills, 

 under the auspices of the Botanical Committee of the British 

 Association. He next became a great collector and student of 

 fungi, hence Aveling's list of ninety species. He compiled 

 a Flora of Sherwood Forest for White's ' Worksop.' He often 

 pursued his natural history at the expense of his ordinary 

 crnployment, in consequence of which he became poor, and 

 tried to obtain a bare subsistence by the sale of micro slides 

 of moss peristomes, parasitic fungi, etc. 



In 1872, the ' Entomologists' Monthly Magazine ' refers 

 to Coprinus comatus in York Cemetery in connection with a 

 beetle. 



The first mention of Dr. Franklin Parsons in ' The Natura- 

 list ' is Nov. 1876, when he records twenty species of fungi 

 found at Goole. His acquaintance with Yorkshire botany 

 dates from 1874 to 1879, during which time he resided at Goole. 

 He formed the Goole Scientific Society in 1875, and acted as 

 its secretary until 1879. He was also the means of organising 

 a Natural History Society at Selby : Mr. Cheesman, a member 

 of our Mycological committee, being one of the results. Dr. 

 Parsons was botanical secretary of the Union during the years 

 1877-8-9. Records of observations made at the Union Excur- 

 sions, as well as other times, were regularly kept. He carefully 

 investigated the Goole district, and in his report to that Society 

 for 1878-79, submitted a long list of Cryptogams, including 

 179 fungi, and it must be remembered, Goole is not a particularly 

 rich locality for this class of plant. I have been favoured by 

 him with a long list of species he has observed in various places 

 in Yorkshire. Mr. Fowler warmly testifies to the doctor's 

 diligence in determining his linds. He left Goole in 1879 ^'^ ^^^^^ 

 up an important appointment as one of the Medical Inspectors 

 under the Local Government Board. This he still holds, and 

 resides at Cro3^don. 



The Rev. Canon Fowler has taken an interest in this subject 



Naturalist, 



