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occur here are immigrants from the continent, and from them the late 
summer or autumn emergence is produced. There was one of the 
periodical immigrations this year, and every lepidopterist of experience 
anticipated its occurrence in large numbers this autumn. That has been 
so in the south of England, although it is probable that the unusually 
cold summer we have had killed off many of the feeding larvae, and so 
prevented a still greater abundance. The progeny of the autumn brood 
in Britain die off as larvae, or as pupae if the weather is mild enough to 
allow them to reach that stage. A specimen was taken here (Hudders- 
field) recently a short distance from my house, and another one reported 
as seen ; and Mr. Samuel Walker took one of the immigrant specimens at 
York in June. — G.T.P. 
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BRITISH MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
A. E. PECK. 
The Annual Fungus Foray of this Society was held at Keswick, Sept. 
15th to 21st. Of the 50 or 60 members assembled, the following were 
more particularly associated with the Mycology of Yorkshire : — W. N. 
Cheesman, J.P., Sir Henry C. Hawley, Bart., Profesor Priestley, A. E. 
Peck and Miss C. A. Cooper. At the Annual Meeting, Mr. Cheesman 
was elected Vice-President. In accepting the honour, Mr. Cheesman 
playfully recalled that he was one of the founders of the Society, if not 
the actual ‘ father of the child,’ which had its inception at an hour sub- 
sequent to midnight, while members lingered over the ‘ cups and saucers ’ 
at a meeting held at Selby 26 years ago. Headquarters were at the Royal 
Oak Hotel, but for examination and display of specimens, as well as for 
meetings and lectures, the hall over the Public Library was used. The 
woods bordering Thirlmere, Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite Lake 
w r ere the chief gathering grounds. The Presidential Address by Mr. F. 
T. Brooks was on ‘Some Present Day Aspects of Mycology.’ Other 
addresses were ‘ Luminosity in Panus,’ by Professor A. H. R. Buller 
(of Manitoba University) ; ‘ Notes on Fungi in the Alps,’ by Mr. 
Somerville Hastings ; ‘ Fungus Hunting in the West Indies,’ by Miss 
E. M. Wakefield ; and ‘ Edible Fungi,’ by Mr. Carleton Rea. 
The meeting was not without its humours. On the day of assembly, 
the hotel-porter communicated to a late arrival the circumstance that 
he was more than usually fatigued, a large party of Herb specialists 
having come into the hotel during the day. 
Following Professor Buller ’s lecture on ‘ Luminosity in Panus,’ it 
was decided that the company should sit in darkness for a few minutes 
in order to observe any indications of luminosity in the many specimens 
of fungi which were spread out upon the tables. None was detected, not 
even in Panus stypticus, American examples of which species had been the 
chief subject of the lecturer’s remarks. The unusual proceedings, how- 
ever, caused not a little mirth, which was increased when the caretaker 
came anxiously upon the scene to enquire what had gone wrong. His 
fears were soon calmed and he promptly retired, but the company could 
not help feeling that they had given the man opportunity for confirming 
any impression which he may have held , in common with so many other 
persons, that the ways of naturalists in general, and ‘ Herb specialists ’ 
in particular, are rather more than passing strange. 
Mr. Rea was in capital form. People asked, he remarked, why he 
could not use English names for his favourites instead of such ‘ jaw- 
breakers . ’ He reminded his audience of the difficulties of such a departure . 
For instance, take Psalliota haemorroidarius — was he to emulate Bernard 
Shaw in ‘ Pygmalion ’ ? 
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