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since the early seventies. He tells me he caught the infection 

 for studying fungi from Dr. Parsons. They studied them 

 together at the Union Excursions for many years. From time 

 to time Mr. Fowler has contributed numerous records of species 

 seen during the excursions to the ' Naturalist.' Apart from 

 these, Coxley A^alle}^ was the locality he mostly investigated. 

 Several uncommon species have rewarded his search. He met 

 with a particularly rare one — Lentimis leontopodius — at Crowle, 

 just within the border of Lincolnshire : this had not been seen 

 in our county until last July, when it was found on some old 

 timber near Huddersfield, by B. Goldthorpe, of Milnsbridge. 

 Mr. Fowler has been a member of the mycological committee 

 since its formation, and was its first chairman. At the Harc- 

 wood and East Keswick Foray, 1898, he gave a most interest- 

 ing address on ' Mycology in its Popular Aspect,' (' Nat.'. 

 October, '98). This will well repay careful perusal. 



Mr. George Brook read a paper on ' Salmon Disease ' at the 

 Huddersfield Societies' meeting, April, 1877 — (' Nat.' iii., p. 145) 

 He also noticed bream affected with Saprolegnia in the fish- 

 pond at Walton Hall, Wakefield. Mr. Brook was then Secretary 

 of the Huddersfield Society. He carried on biological investi- 

 gation for some years by means of his large well-equipped 

 private aquarium at Huddersfield. He was a F.L.S. In 1885 

 he was appointed Naturalist to the Fishery Board for Scotland, 

 and later became Lecturer of Comparative Embryology in the 

 University of Edinburgh. 



Mr. W. West, Bradford, began the study of botany in boy- 

 hood. In 1870 he took it up in earnest. At the early Union 

 excursions he rubbed shoulders with Dr. Parsons, Messrs. W. 

 Fowler, James Abbott, Thos. Hick, and others. He was one 

 of the early members of the Bradford Natural History Society 

 (formed 1875). In 1878 he lectured to the Bradford Scientific 

 Association, of which he was one of the earliest members, on 

 Fungi, and exhibited a large number of fungal leaf parasites. 

 Mr. H. T. Soppitt attended, and thence forward took a keen 

 interest in the subject. The two worl^ed together in their 

 botanical studies for years, and added considerably to th? 

 knowledge of West Riding fungi. Their first hunting grounds 

 were Bingley, Hawksworth, and Heaton, near Bradford. 

 Berkeley's ' Outlines of British Fungology (i860) ' and 

 ' Cooke's Handbook (1871) ' were then the most recent 

 British sj^stematic text-books — both most excellent works. Mi\ 



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