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YORKSHIRE MYCOLOGISTS AT KIRBYMOORSIDE. 
F. A. MASON, F.R.M.S. , AND JOHN GRAINGER, PH.D. 
The Annual Meeting of the Mycological Committee of the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union was held at Kirbymoorside 
from September 17th — 22nd, 1932. The White Horse Hotel 
arranged to accommodate the members of the Committee, 
and a large work-room was available. 
Kirbymoorside is a small town situated between the North 
York Moors and the upper part of the Vale of Pickering. 
Two ecological types of collecting ground were therefore 
presented — the valleys and hills with limestone vegetation 
and the cultivated alluvial plain to the south of the centre. 
The latter type of country is often difficult of access to a large 
party, but the visitors to Kirbymoorside were fortunate in 
having the very active assistance of Mr. J. Burnett and Mr. 
Lealman, who knew the district, and brought in collections 
of fungi from various places. Nevertheless, the species in the 
list which follows can all be regarded as typical of the valleys, 
the sides of which were invariably lined with woods of a very 
mixed character. If any one tree could be said to be present 
more generally than any other, it was the oak. Sycamore, 
birch and holly were plentiful. The undergrowth was mainly 
Mercurialis and except in Kirkdale was fairly dense. 
The chief excursions were to the woods round the River 
Dove, to Hutton Beck and to Kirkdale. All these localities 
were rich in specimens and afforded much work for the members 
present . 
The Annual Meeting of the Committee was held at the 
White Horse Hotel on Saturday, September 17th, at 8 p.m., 
under the able chairmanship of Mr. J. W. H. Johnson, M.Sc. 
Mr. A. E. Peck was elected chairman of the Committee for 
the coming year, and Mr. Fowler Jones was named Repre- 
sentative of the Committee on the Executive. Mr. J. Grainger 
was re-elected Hon. Secretary. 
Mr. T. Petch, B.A., B.Sc., addressed the Committee the 
same evening on ‘ The Hypocreacese.’ He dealt in a very 
simple yet scholarly manner with the characteristics and 
classification of this difficult group of Fungi. 
The Secretary spoke about * Virus Diseases of Plants ’ on 
the evening of Monday, September 19th, and the following 
evening Mr. F. A. Mason, F.R.M.S., delivered a public lecture 
on ‘ Fungi ’ which was much appreciated, not only by members 
of the Union, but also by the more enlightened public of 
Kirbymoorside and the neighbourhood. 
The name of Miss Kathleen Morehouse was added to the 
list of members of the Committee. 
The different species of fungi found proved to be unusually 
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