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place for the first foray. At that meeting, September, 1897, 

 the number of members had increased to fifty. The 1904 

 meeting was held at Mnlgrave Woods. 



Mr. W. A. Thwaites, of Masham, has taken much interest 

 in fungi since the Union excursion held there in August, 1901. 

 He is a carpenter on the estate, and was selected by the 

 head forester, Mr. W. Forbes, as assistant guide. Thwaites was 

 much taken up with these things, so much so, that he continued 

 to forward almost weekly consignments to Halifax during the 

 remainder of the season, with the result that, instead of the 

 fungus records for Masham being nil, as they were at the August 

 meeting, they amounted to 416 at the end of the year. To 

 these, 116 were added the following season. Many further 

 additions have since been made, but time will not allow of 

 more detail ; this can be followed in the ' Naturalist.' Many 

 uncommon species were found — Venturia Thwaitesii (Massee 

 and Crossland) being one. Thwaites rarely sent one thing 

 twice over unless more happened to be wanted. 



Mr. Thos. Gibbs, Derby, commenced his study of Yorkshire 

 fungi in 1899. He was then residing at Sheffield, and investi- 

 gated the woods and fields at Wyming Brook, and other places 

 near that city. He has discovered many uncommon species, 

 two new to science, one being known as Coprinus Gihhsii (Massee 

 and Crossland) . Mr. Gibbs is at present engaged on the fungus 

 flora of Derbyshire. 



Mr. R. H. Philip, in addition to his close study of diatoms, 

 desmids, etc., has made many observations on the East York- 

 shire Uredinaceae. 



In 1902-3-4, Mr. T. Fetch, Hedon, collected and studied 

 Myxomycetes in S.E. Yorkshire, and made numerous additions 

 to the Yorkshire list. He secured the expert assistance of 

 Mr. Arthur Lister, F.R.S., I>eytonstone. Mr. Fetch worked 

 very diligently at these, in addition to other departments of 

 Natural History, as : — Land and fresh-water mollusca, marine 

 zoology, bird life, etc. The results of his investigations on the 

 Myxomycetes or Mycetozoa, were published in the ' Transactions 

 of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalist Club.' Mr. Fetch is 

 now Government Mycologist at Ceylon. 



In 1903, Mr. J. E. Sutcliffe, Bradford, a pupil of Mr. Wests', 

 first found Plasmopara pusilla in this country, on Geranium 

 pratense at Embsay. Sutcliffe was a promising student, but 

 was obliged to go abroad on account of his health. Other 



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