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Comment 49An American in a Belgian swimming pool -

Else C. Vellinga 50The basidium in Ustilaginaceae: a correction and an

addition - C. T. Ingold 53Miss Gulielma Lister F. 1. S. remembered -

E. F. Haskins 54Phellinus cavicola and British records previously

assigned to P. umbrinellus - Martyn Ainsworth 56A mycological expedition to Puerto Rico -

N. WLegon 58Asian-Pacific Mycological Conference on Biodiversity

and Biotechnology: Hua Hin, Thailand, July 1998 -Gareth Jones 63

Gyroporus cyanescens: easily overlooked inHampshire - Graham Mattock 64

British Dermateaceae: 2. Naevioideae - MarijheM. Nauta & Brian Spooner 65

Correspondence 69Revival and characterization of fungi from ancient

polar ice - Lijun.Ma, Catharine M. Catranis,William T. Starmer & Scott O. Rogers 70

BMS Upland Foray, Isle of Arran, 29 August -5 September 1998 74

Yin and Yan, Romulus and Remus, TweedleDee and Tweedle Dum - are the Mycologist andField Mycology going to be another pair of spot-the-difference twins? Those older members ofthe Society familiar with the genesis of theformer are having twinges of deja vu as theycontemplate the initiation of the latter.

From 1897 until the 1940's the Society'sTransactions was the vehicle for reportingresearch and providing news, notices, andgovernance reports. In 1947 the first Newsletterwas produced. The Bulletin was started in 1967to "contain accounts of Forays and othermeetings of the Society, news of interest tomycologists, and articles of general interest onfungi". Twenty years later, the January 1987issue became The Mycologist, still A5 size butwith added colour. The editorial, p 1, observedthat "This is the journal for everyone with aninterest in Fungi, including Members andAssociates of the Society, professionals andamateurs, and readers both within the UK andoverseas. It seeks to cover the full range ofmycological interests, ... " The President'smessage, p. 3, said "The Mycologist...is morethan the marriage of the Bulletin and TheProgrammes Newsletter; it commences a new erafor the Society. The Publications Policy, p 34,provided a capsule history of the Society's majorpublications - The Mycologist, the Transactions,and the Symposium Series.

BMS Day Foray Reports 75The genetical control of osmotolerance in fungi:

a mutation analysis in the ascomyceteAspergillus nidulans - Darren Clement, NicholasClipson & Paul Hooley 79

Cookery Corner 82Mycological Dispatches 83Profiles of Fungi 84Entyloma chrysosplenii rediscovered on

Chrysosplenium alternifolium in Yorkshire -T. F. Preece, J. A. Clement & A. Gramshaw 86

Fungal Foes in your Garden - 41 Fuchsia Rust -R. T. Fox 88

Mycology Answers: How and why do many fungalhyphae form septa? - Susan Isaac 89

Book Reviews 91Progress in mycological sciences: UK meets Japan-

David Moore 95Obituary: John Lacey (1937-1998) 96Front cover: Gyromitra esculenta at Mar Lodge,Aberdeenshire. Grampian Fungus Group Foray, 17 May1998. Photograph © Mary Bain

The change to the A4 size Mycologist (volume8) dropped the definite article and added thepresent subtitle. The editorial noted thatmembers, by and large, would either have "...acautious appreciation of the change as a positivemove ...or... a hesitation bordering on reactionagainst a handy 'pocket' size." The draft of myfirst editorial, a year later, picked up on thesubtitle's keywords and in the (9/1; 1995)editorial the new editors remarked that "Thepolicy of the Journal [would be] to foster andenhance [its] global overview by providing aninteresting and informative coverage ofmycological subjects [and that they] hope[d] toreach a much wider readership..."

In these selected observations we see itemsthat Field Mycology wishes to pick up on: thedesire to address a more circumscribed audience,to become a national magazine attractive to thenon-professional sector. We visualize it taking itsplace among continental journals, becoming aforum in a common language for field mycology(forays, conservation, ecology etc.), and attractingcontributions and exchanges from interestedreaders in the UK and the rest of Europe.

Definitely, therefore, by staking out newand undeveloped territory, Field Mycology isnot a Mycologist Doppelganger. These twodiverse general journals, together withMycological Research, can fulfill the Society'sbroad mission to promote mycology for allthose interested in fungi.

Roy Moore

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