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gists have made a beginning by hunting for species for cuhnary 

 purposes. While seeking these, they have taken interest in 

 others, and have thus developed a real scientific interest — it was 

 so with Clarke. He went thoroughl}^ into the subject, and in 

 1883 he was able to publish a long list of Huddersfield fungi 

 in the Annual Report of the Huddersfield Botanical Society, 

 which included many species of rare occurrence. A further 

 incentive was given him by visiting the Union forays, and by 

 making the acquaintance of Dr. Cooke and Mr. Massee, whose 

 assistance has always been so generously accorded. Clarke 

 has attended all the Yorkshire forays, with only about one 

 exception, and has been one of the mainstays of the committee. 

 He early developed the highly commendable practice of photo- 

 graphing his finds ; this led to the stereo process being applied 

 to the same purpose, and in this class of picture he was pioneer. 

 His collection of stereo-photos of fungi is perhaps the finest 

 known. They, along with his numerous sketches and coloured 

 drawings, have for years been an attractive feature at our 

 mycological gatherings. 



In the photographing of fungi, Mr. Riley Fortune, Harrogate, 

 and Mr. George Parkin of Wakefield are also doing most excel- 

 lent work. 



The edible side of the subject is very ancient, and not to be 

 despised. Bolton refers to several species as being greatly 

 esteemed. He himself was rather suspicious of FisUdina 

 hepatica, and writes : — ' This is said to be of the esculent kind : 

 I have found it to taste like lamb's flesh, but how far it is to be 

 trusted I know not.' There are seventy or eighty British 

 edible species, most of which are found in Yorkshire, many 

 being very substantial in their build. The popular interest 

 appears to run mostly in this groove, and has been deemed of 

 sufficient importance throughout the country to call forth 

 special popular books on Edible and Poisonous species. Many 

 species have been put to other uses. 



In 1885, Geo. Roberts, in his ' Topography and Natural 

 History of Lofthouse,' mentions Russula virescens, Boletus 

 ■edulis, and Helvella crispa. 



Mr. Thomas Hebden, Cullingworth, has long studied the 

 fungi of Goit Stock, Harden, Bingley, etc., and discovered 

 many uncommon species, and quite recently one new to science. 

 — Clavaria gigaspora. 



The Rev. Hilderic Friend has occasionally recorded species, 



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