MYCOLOGISTS AT SANDSEND. 
380 
C. CROSSLAND, 
Halifax. 
The twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Mycological Section 
of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union was held at Sandsend, 
October 3rd to 8th, for the further investigation of the Mulgrave 
woodlands. This is the eighth autumn on which these grand 
old woods have been selected by the Committee for the Annual 
Foray, in addition to four unofficial spring gatherings. The 
intention has been to acquire by these successive visits an 
approximate knowledge of the mycological products of a 
definitely limited area. This we have been enabled to carry 
out at Mulgrave Woods through the kindness of their noble 
owner, The Rev. the Marquis of Normanby. The develop- 
ment and results of the investigations, regularly chronicled 
in The Naturalist, have, we venture to think, justified the efforts 
made. Headquarters were as usual, at the commodious and 
convenient Normanby House, close to the woods, and we were 
again granted the use of Sandsend school for work and exhibit 
rooms. 
The members of the Committee present were Mr. and 
Miss Massee, Ivew ; Mr. Harold W. T. Wager, Leeds ; Sir H. C. 
Hawley, Bart., Sussex ; Messrs. Alfred Clarke, Huddersfield ; 
Thos. Gibbs, Wirksworth ; C. H. Broadhead, Thongsbridge ; 
M. Malone, Bradford ; A. E. Peck, and T. B. Roe, Scarborough ; 
Miss C. A. Cooper, Robin Hood’s Bay ; and the Secretary. 
Mr. Cheesman was attending the British Association Meeting 
in Australia from whence he had forwarded to Miss Cooper 
specimens of the brilliant Polysticfus sanguineus, and the 
peculiar Schizophyllum commune. 
Other members of the Union who attended were Messrs. 
J. Ackroyd, Batley ; Thos. Hebden, Keighley ; R. Fowler 
Jones, York ; J. W. Taylor, and Greevz Fysher, Leeds ; and 
friend Thos. Hey, Derby. 
It is gratifying to note that the Whitby Naturalists’ Society, 
including the Rev. J. W. Bowman, Miss Cooper, and others are 
now displaying much interest in mycology, and had organised 
a foray to take place in Mulgrave words on the Saturday after- 
noon, under the leadership of Miss Cooper and Mr. A. E. Peck. 
The charming weather which prevailed during the week 
was suitable for searching the woods and fields, but the scarcity 
of fungi was somewhat disappointing. It very early became 
apparent that the records would be much lighter than usual. 
The woods generally were drier than we have seen them on 
any previous occasion ; moist places being limited, and mostly 
in the neighbourhood of the streams. The larger agarics were 
particularly scarce, especially such as depend on moist soli 
Naturalist, 
