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SHERWOOD FOREST FORAY. 

WELBECK, THORESBY, CLUMBER AND THE BIRKLANDS, 
13th-18th September, 1897. 
The first annual week’s fungus foray was held in Sherwood Forest, 
Worksop being selected as a convenient centre from which the 
different portions of the Forest could be worked. On Monday, the 
13th of September the members assembled at Worksop, where the 
Lion Hotel was constituted the headquarters, and there a room was 
set apart for the exhibition of fungi and the reading of papers. 
Tuesday, the 14th of September, was devoted to an exploration of 
the woods on the Welbeck Estate, but owing to the recent drought 
that had apparently reigned for some time past, but few interesting 
fungi were collected, though Tubulina cylindrica, Rost, was very 
abundant on some saw-dust, and Pexiza sepiatra, Cke, was found on 
a charcoal heap. From thence the walk was continued through 
various plantations till at last the remnants of the “Seven Sisters 
Oak” were reached, and the members were fortunate enough to 
obtain a sight of the white deer herd in the adjoining park, 
In the evening, Mr. George Massee, F.R.M.S., F.L.S., delivered 
his presidential address on “ Mycological progress during the past 
sixty years,” a résumé of which appears hereafter. Mr. George 
Massee, F.R.M.S., F.L.S., was unanimously re-elected President, and 
Mr. Carleton Rea, B.C.L., M.A., Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, the 
then present Treasurer, Mr. Charles Crossland, advocating the 
combination of these two offices in one, as their division only 
entailed useless expenditure of the Club’s funds. The Secretary then 
read a letter from Professor Johnson, on behalf of the Dublin Natu- 
ralists’ Field Club, cordially inviting the British Mycological Society 
to visit Ireland next year under the auspices of their Club ; this 
