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THE first duty of Prof. A. E. Muskett as president of the British Mycological Society for the ensuing year was to preside at the discussions of the Society on "Mycological Education" at its meeting on January 31. In the first paper of the session, "The Society and Mycological Education", Dr. G. C. Ainsworth reminded us that mycological education is implicit in many of the activities of the Society, not the least of these being the annual foray where amateur and professional mycologists forgather for a week of intensive study of fungi collected on daily excursions. This club meeting has done much to keep alive the "tradition of species". By its report on "The Need for Encouraging the Study of Systematic Mycology in England and Wales" printed, but not published, in 1944, and by its subsequent report on "The Teaching of Mycology"printed in 1946, but again not published, the Society focused attention on the dearth of trained mycologists and of systematists in particular, and on the need for detailed consideration of, and early action to secure, the adequate training of mycologists in the diverse fields in which present-day conditions require their services. The discussion afforded the exchange of views on the question of mycological education between mycologists of widely different interests.
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CHESTERS, C. Education in Mycology. Nature 161, 507–508 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161507a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161507a0