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Crossland: Mycologists at Sandsend. 
the Basidiomycetes,’ illustrated by the lantern, and Mr. Peck 
exhibited a large number of lantern slides of Yorkshire agarics. ' 
On Tuesday Mr. Wager gave his observation on ‘ The 
Micro-chemical Selection of Aldehydes in Fungal Tissues,’ 
illustrated by diagrams, and Mr. Gibbs the results of his long- 
continued observations on ‘ Fungus Habitats.’ 
Mr. Clarke read a paper on ‘ The Genus Hygrophorus.’ 
dealing with their structure, consistency, classification, habitat, 
distribution, appearance, colours, and qualities — several being 
edible. In respect to other groups of agarics Mr. Clarke had 
gone to much trouble in preparing half a dozen large diagrams, 
each in the form of a synopsis after W. G. Smith, showing 
at a glance the arrangement of the genera in the several 
groups of agarics constituting the Agaricaceae. The diagrams 1 
were hung on the school walls on the Monday morning and 
left there until Thursday for study, and proved very uesful. 
Several visitors staying at Sandsend, also residents, ex- 
pressed a wish to come into the school to see the fungi on the 
tables. Most of them spent some time in looking around, and 
were much surprised to see so great a variety, and richness 
in colour, displayed in this class of vegetation. 
At the May meeting in the neighbourhood of Sandsend 
twenty-seven additions. were made to the flora, four of which 
were new to Yorkshire, two of them being new to Britain — 
Peniophora glebulosa, on dead wood, and Glceosporium tri- 
folium Peck, on Trifolium repens, the latter only previously 
known from the United States of America. 
In September about sixty further additions were made, 
twenty-five of which were additions to Yorkshire and two new 
to Britain, viz., Naitcoria Weislandri Fr., and Galera flexipes 
Karst. For May and September results see below. 
On Wednesday a summary of the work already done irr 
the district was given by the Secretary. 
At the business meeting a hearty vote of thanks was 
passed to the Rev. the Marquis of Normanby for so kindly 
permitting the Mycological Committee to search the wood- 
lands connected with Mulgrave Castle a few years in succession. 
Also to the Rev. W. G. Harland for granting the use of the 
schoolrooms at Sandsend. 
The Committee and Officers for 1914 remain the same, 
with the exception of the omission of the name of the late 
James Needham and the addition of Miss Ivy Massee, Kew. 
Miss Massee and Mr. Bendorf. Manchester, were recommended 
for election as members of the Union. 
The Members of the Committee are trusting to the 
generosity of Lord Normanby to once more allow them to 
look through Mulgrave Woods, and recommend Sandsend, 3rd 
to 8th October, as the meeting-place for 1914. 
Naturalist, 
