FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT, FOR IQOS. 
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Excellent results attended the Topcliffe, Hornsea, and Os- 
motherley excursions, particulars of which will be found in the 
pages of " The Naturalist." At Osmotherley, a puff-ball new to 
Britain {Bovistella paliidosa) was found. 
The Mulgrave Foray was the most successful ever held in 
this country, no fewer than 611 species being found. Of these, 
two, or perhaps three, are new to Britain, and about thirty 
new to Yorkshire. This is the third visit to that rich mycological 
locality. 
Upon the whole, the present year may be considered to be 
the most profitable the Committee has hitherto experienced. 
On summing up the finds of the year it is ascertained that four 
or hve are additions to the British, and forty-one to the York- 
shire Fungus Flora. In addition to the new county species, 
the knowledge of the distribution of fungi throughout the five 
vice-counties composing Yorkshire is being constantly increased, 
and is being regularly posted up in an interleaved copy of the 
Yorkshire Fungus Flora, kept for that special purpose. 
The Committee decided to recommend Castle Howard as 
the place for next year's foray, September i8th to 23rd. 
The following members form the Committee for 1909 : — 
Chairman — George Massee, Kew. 
Convener — C. Crossland, 4 Coleridge Street, Halifax. 
Representative on Executive — C. Crossland. 
Other Members— Rev. Canon W. Fowler, Liversedge ; Harold 
Wager, F.R.S., Leeds; Alfred Clarke, Hudders- 
field ; W. N. Cheesman, Selby ; Thos. Gibbs, 
Wirksworth ; J. W. H. Johnson, Dewsbury ; R. H. 
Philip, Hull ; C. H. Broadhead, Thongsbridge ; 
H. C. Hawley, Boston ; M. Malone, Bradford ; 
A. R. Sanderson, Bradford ; and W. Robinson, 
Hull. 
GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 
The Secretaries, Messrs. A. J. Stather and E. Hawkesworth, 
.write : — Interest in the work of this section has been well 
maintained, though some of the excursions have not been 
very attractive from a geological point of view. The Top- 
cliffe meeting w^as very clisappointing, as, on account of the 
Swale being in flood, the only exposure of solid rock (Lias) was 
inaccessible. The Hornsea meeting afforded a good opportunity 
•for inspecting the interesting sections of glacial and post-glacial 
.deposits exposed in the Holderness coast. The attendance at 
Hampole was small, the study of the Permian rocks offering little 
