148 Cross/a /I d : The Study of Fungi in Yorkshire. 



was joint author of the 'Yorkshire Fungus Flora.' At the 

 Doncaster meeting held 1891, he was the means of establishing 

 an. Annual Yorkshire Foray, which is still held in different parts 

 of the county, and to which he remains loyal. He has been 

 absent on only a few occasions. When present, it has been his 

 custom to address the members on some practical side of 

 the subject. He has been President of the Mycological Com- 

 mittee since 1899. 



Between 1880 and 1883 Mr. J. A. Wheldon, now of Liverpool, 

 collected and studied the Uredinaceae near Scarborough, and 

 at Northallerton and Bedale. 



Mr. George Lister, a member of the Rastrick and Brighouse 

 Naturalists' Society, though more directl}^ in love with con- 

 chology and fossil plants, took an interest in this branch, and 

 collected fungi in Elland Park Wood, and about Ovenden 

 where he resided a few years prior to his death. 



We first find mention of Mr. A. Clarke, Huddersfield, as a 

 nature student in 1877. He was then secretary to the Rastrick 

 and Brighouse Societ}^ Since 1882 Mr. Clarke has been the 

 centre of mycological investigations in the Huddersfield dis- 

 trict. He was attracted to the subject in the early eighties, 

 and drew round him a few members of the local Societies. 

 He secured the valuable assistance of Worthington G. Smith, 

 a mycologist of extensive experience, in identifying species, and 

 by degrees obtained such a knowledge of the subject as enabled, 

 him to give addresses at the various local societies' meetings. 

 In this way considerable enthusiasm was aroused, especially 

 when it became known there were so many esculent species in 

 addition to the ordinary mushroom. The economic aspect 

 caught on, and in no district in the county are edible toadstools 

 better known or more appreciated than they are about Hud- 

 dersfield. 



In season, quantities were taken to the meetings ; often the 

 edible species were cooked, and the respective merits of the 

 various kinds discussed. When it became known that a delect- 

 able species had been seen in abundance in any particular 

 district, bags and baskets, and on more than one occasion, a 

 horse and trap was hired to bring back the spoils. These 

 "were generally distributed, with the result that scores of people 

 obtained, for the time being, this pleasant variation of diet. So 

 well were the features of edible species mastered, that the mis- 

 take of cooking a wTong fungus is unknown. Several mycolo- 



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