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KEYS TO THE BRITISH SPECIES OF RUSSULAR.W. Rayner

The revised, reprinted, second edition is now ready, price until 30thOctober £1.60, thereafter £2. Two mistakes have crept into this publication;the author apologises but would please request readers to alter Couplet 104 asfollows - after halodes I, for 43 read 44 (foot of p. 102 in revised version, p. 72in Bulletin 10.2) also at Couplet 107 after percicina var. nov. for 43 read 44(p. 103 in revised version, p. 72 in Bulletin 10.2).

KEY TO FUNGI ON DUNGA mistake has been notified, at the top of p. 15 in the revised version

the following Couplet was omitted

11 Cap lacking remains of veil 12Cap with veil 24

YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AND THEBRITISH MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Dr. Roy Watling on December 4th 1976 was elected the President of theYorkshire Naturalists' Union for the year 1977. Dr. Watling follows in thefootsteps of former members of the British Mycological Society, ProfessorN.F. Robertson (1966), Dr. J. Grainger (1956), the late E.W. Mason (1953)and the champion of agarics the late A.A. Pearson (1946). Other Presidents ofthe Union were F.A. Mason (1934), T. Petch (1931), W.H. Cheesman (1916),Harold Wager (1913), Charles Crossland (1907) and the Rev. Wm. Fowler(1901).

The West Riding Consolidated Naturalists' Society was founded in 1861and became officially the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union seventeen years later.In 1881 the rapidly growing young body of Yorkshire mycologists organisedtheir first meeting - a 'fungus foray' a term probably derived from the WoolhopeClub and a familiar expression to Alfred Clarke and George Massee throughtheir correspondence with Mordecai C. Cooke and Worthington G. Smith.

In 1895 at their Huddersfield meeting it was decided, over a cup of teain the house of Mr. Cheesman, that the formation of a national society shouldbe proposed. In the presence of several Woolhopeans one year later at Selbythe idea of a national society was revived and accepted, and officers elected.The first meeting of the British Mycological Society thus became a day forayon September 13th 1896 at Grimsby - 'A Lincolnshire Day' jointly held withthe Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union formed only three years earlier by the Rev.Wm. Fowler, and the firsi: foray at Sherwood Forest in 1897.

Thus the Society has strong links with the Yorkshire Naturalists nowunder the guidance of one of our own former Councillors and present memberof the foray committee.