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THE STUDY OF FUNGI IN YORKSHIRE. 



(Being the Presidential Address delivered to the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union at Halifax, Dec. 14th, 1907). 



C. CROSSLAND, F.L.S. 



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Becoming connected with the Union through the instru- 

 mentality of Mr. West, he acted as cryptogamic secretary in 

 1881-2. At its first foray, he was one of the principals. The 

 headquarters was at Leeds. The localities investigated were 

 Studley Royal, and Beckwithshaw, Harrogate. Meanwood, 

 Micklefield, and Ledstone Park were also explored. Specimens 

 were exhibited at the evening meeting from nineteen other 

 localities. The assistance of Mr. W. Phillips, Shrewsbury ; 

 Rev. J. E. Yize, Montgomeryshire ; and Dr. C. B. Plowright, 

 King's Lynn, had been secured. The foray was arranged by 

 W. Denison Roebuck. About fifty of the 318 species exhibited 

 were additions to the county flora. This foray imparted a fur- 

 ther stimulus to field mycology. At the next foray held at 

 Selby, October 1884 — arranged by W. N. Cheesman, Mr. 

 Massee taking the lead, another substantial addition was made. 



Mr. Massee was again at Leeds, 1888, when the woods at 

 Bramham and Harewood were visited. In the meantime he 

 continued his investigations at Scarborough and Bulmer. 



In 1890 he was engaged in the Mycological Department, 

 British Museum (Natural History). In 1893, as f^rincipal 

 Assistant (Cryptogams), Kew. When Kew became attached 

 to the Board of Agriculture, he became Vegetable Pathologist 

 to the Board, for diseases caused by fungi. In 1900 he was 

 awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour (V.M.H.), by the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, for research in plant diseases. His most 

 useful book on this subject rapidly reached its third edition, 

 and is of great value to foresters, farmers, nurserymen, and plant 

 growers generally. He has made numerous contributions in 

 the shape of monographs and other articles, to ' Annals of Bot- 

 any ' ; ' Jour. Roy. Mic. Soc' ; Linnaean Society ; * Jour, of 

 Botany,' etc. He edited vols. xxi. and xxii. of ' Grevillea.' 

 In addition to these are his ' British Fungus Flora,' four vols. ; 

 ' British Gastromycetes ' ; ' Phycomycetes and Ustilagineae ' ; 

 "'European Agaricacese ' ; 'Text-book of Fungi,' etc., and he 



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