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shire,’ since the publication of the Flora appeared in The 
Naturalist. This consisted of fifty-five species, fifteen of which 
were new to the British flora. The county fungus flora then 
stood at 2,950. 
It will be seen by the reports of the various excursions 
published in The Naturalist that the mycologists were active 
in their searches. There is no need for particulars here, as they 
may all be found in the following pages of our journal : — Roche 
Abbey, pp. 208-9 ; Kirkby Stephen, 234 ; Burnsall, 374 ; Stamford 
Bridge, 302-3 ; Great Ayton, 329-31. A new departure may be 
noted. At Burnsall Mr. F. A. Mason, Leeds, exposed some 
prepared plates with the object of catching fungus spores floating 
in the atmosphere, and succeeded in developing, among other 
of his captures, four species not previously recorded in the 
Yorkshire Fungus Flora. 
The mysterious discomycete Phceangella empetri, which 
grows on browned leaves of Empetrum nigrum, and has been 
in three different genera, has at last been clearly and satisfactorily 
defined. ( See The Naturalist, 1912, pp. 206-7, an( l I 9 I 3 - 
pp. 251-2.) 
In June, Humaria subhirsuta, an interesting and uncommon 
discomycete, was sent me by Mr. Sheppard. It was found 
growing in a shaded corner of his garden at Bridlington. 
The Keighley Natural History Society sent one of the 
Mycetozoa, Chondrioderma simplex, on dead ling from the moors 
between Cowling and Keighley in July. This is the first record 
for the species in England. 
By the death of Mr. James Needham, Hebden Bridge, the 
Committee have lost a valuable member. 
An informal meeting was held by the Committee in May at 
Sandsend for the Mulgrave district. The annual foray in 
September was again held in the same district. The results of 
the two meetings, which were considered most satisfactory, will 
be duly chronicled in The Naturalist. There was a general 
feeling at the close that it was necessary to continue our re- 
searches a little longer, by permission of the Marquis of 
Normanby, so as to get an approximate idea of what a given 
area will produce. 
GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 
Messrs. J. Holmes and C. Bradshaw, report as follows : — 
All the Committees of the Section, except that dealing with 
Coast Erosion, had opportunities for practical work at the 
excursions. Most of these meetings were well attended, the one 
held at Burnsall, at which nearly forty members were present, 
being particularly good. On Easter Saturday Roche Abbey was 
visited, when the geologists renewed their acquaintance with 
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