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had suffered by reason of the lamented death of their late secre. 
tary, the Rev. John Stevenson, L.L.D., and a similar resolution 
was passed to his widow and family, and the Hon. Sec. wa, 
requested to forward such resolutions to his widow and The 
Cryptogamic Society of Scotland. The election of officers fo, 
the ensuing year then took place. Mr. R. H. Biffen, M.A. was 
unanimously elected President; Professor H. Marshall Ward 
D.Sc, F.RS., &c, Vice-President; and Mr. Carleton Rea 
B.C.L., M.A., Hon. Secretary and Treasurer. The Hon. Secre: 
tary and Treasurer announced that two ordinary members had 
been elected since their last meeting, viz., B. S. Ogle, Hill House. 
Steeple Aston, Oxford, and Miss Agnes Fry, Failand House, 
Failand, near Bristol, and that the sum of 423. 4s. 6d. stood to 
their credit at the Post Office. The date for the foray at 
Haslemere in 1905 was left to be arranged so as to suit the con- 
venience of the President elect and “ The Haslemere Microscope 
and Natural History Society.”* Several suggestions for the 
place of meeting for the 1906 foray were discussed but no de- 
cision was arrived at. A paper on “Recent Researches on 
Parasitism” by R. H. Biffen, M.A. (see p. 84), was then read. 
On Wednesday, the 14th of September, the members were busy 
up till 11.40 in examining the fungi collected on the previous 
day and then at that time departed from the West Cliff Station 
for Sands End. Here they detrained and walked up to the 
entrance lodge of the Mulgrave Woods (permission to visit which 
had been kindly granted by the owner, the Rev. the Marquess 
of Normanby), where the members first spread out over some 
open pastures and then proceeded into the woods surrounding 
the Castle. Although a careful search was made, few fungi were 
boxed, the most noteworthy being Mycena Iris Berk, M. 
cruenta Fr. Pluteus salicinus Pers, Eccilia atropuncta Pers, 
Inocybe mutica Fr., and Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) prasinus 
Schaeff. On the return walk to Sands End fine examples of 
Coprinus squamosus Morg.t were found growing at the railway 
station at the base of a post. In the evening the annual club 
dinner was held at the Hotel Métropole, after which the 
members proceeded to the Club-room and debated Saccardos 
“De diagnostica et nomenclatura mycologica,” a translation of 
which is appended at p. 80, and the resolutions in respect to 
those suggestions are there set out in full. 
On Thursday, the 15th of September, the members took the 10 
o'clock train from the Town Station to Sleights and proceeded 
through Iburndale to the woods near the Falling Foss. Here 
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* This has now been arranged and is fixed for Monday to Saturday, asth 
to 30th September. 
+ For description see Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. vol. I., p. 158, 
