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HE 1 hirty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Society was held 
at Rothesay on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th September, 1913. 
I he place of meeting was the Bute Arms Hotel. The Buteshire 
Natural History Society kindly placed at our disposal a room at 
the Museum, with facilities for arranging the specimens obtained 
at the excursions or sent in for exhibition. Among the latter 
were several hampers of fungi, most of which had been gathered 
in the woods at Mountstuart and Woodend by Lord Bute’s 
gamekeepers and foresters, besides a number of specimens 
obtained in the neighbourhood of Rothesay by Mr A. D. 
Macbeth and others. 
On I uesday, 23rd September, an excursion had been 
arranged to the woods at Mountstuart, the residence of the 
Marquis of Bute; but heavy rain fell continuously during the 
morning and forenoon, and the visit was therefore deemed 
impracticable. In the afternoon, however, during a temporary 
improvement in the weather, several of the members went to 
Mountstuart, where their search for fungi was much impeded by 
the wet state of the woods, and was soon abandoned owing to a 
renewal of the rainfall. In the evening, on the invitation of the 
President and Council of the Buteshire Natural History Society, 
a reception was held in the Museum, when there was a large 
attendance. The chair was occupied by Dr. J. N. Marshall, 
President of the local Society, who welcomed our Society to 
Rothesay on the occasion of its first visit to that town. A short 
paper, on “Some Economic Aspects of Mycology,” was read 
by Mr D. A. Boyd. After tea had been served, Mr R. B. John¬ 
stone exhibited and described a series of about 150 lantern-slides, 
which illustrated the life-histories of the principal types of fungi, 
and showed many of the interesting forms that occur in pastures 
and woodlands. The series included a large number of beau¬ 
tiful views of fungi in their native haunts, photographed and 
prepared by Mr W. R. Baxter. 
