REPORT OF THE CLUB'S DELEGATE.
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Mr. Pearson has since reported that no basidiomycetes and 7 dis-
comycetes were collected during the Foray, a very good result in the
circumstances. The following species were new to the Forest list :—
Entoloma rhodopolium Fr.
Sclerotinia pseudotuberosa (Hedw.) Fuc.
Discina venosa (Pers.) Boud.
Chlorosplenium aeruginosum (Oeder) de Not.
Tricholoma cognatum Fr.
This last is usually considered a variety of T. arcuatum, which is
however, a doubtful species.
REPORT OF THE CLUB'S DELEGATE TO THE
CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES OF CORRE-
SPONDING SOCIETIES, BRITISH ASSOCIATION
MEETING IN NOTTINGHAM, 1937.
By D. J. SCOURFIELD, I.S.O., F.L.S.
THE two meetings devoted to the Conference of the delegates
from the. various Societies affiliated to the British Associa-
tion were this year duly held in the University College at
Nottingham under the presidency of Dr. James Ritchie, formerly
Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen and
now Professor of the same subject in the University of Edinburgh.
The subject of Prof. Ritchie's address was "The Outlook of
Natural History," and he commenced by referring to the
similarity of the all-inclusive outlook upon the world of living
nature which, at their foundation, characterised both Natural
History Societies and the chairs of Natural History in the
Scottish Universities. But the tree of knowledge of natural
history had now given rise to many great branches which had
become all but independent specialised offshoots, and this had
necessarily brought about changes in outlook both in the case of
the Universities and of the local natural history societies. It
was to the latter change that he wished to draw attention.
While admitting and praising the useful work carried out by
natural history societies in the spreading of knowledge by lectures
and discussions, he pointed out that the more and more remote
possibility of discovering new things and the extreme degree of
specialisation now required, for example for the identification of
species and sub-species, had nearly frozen out the amateur
naturalist from the work of gaining new knowledge through the