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Dr. F. Kotlaba, guest of honour 1976
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B.M.S. Spring Foray May 13-18 1976 is to be held at PIas Tanybwlch, Maentwrog, Snowdonia National Park. This study centre is a man sion house set in its own grounds , with comfortable accommodation , laboratory space, library, bar and lounge and as if that were not enough, its own railway station on one of the famous little train services of Wales. Dr. F. KOTLABA is to be our Guest of Honour at the autumn foray this year in the Isle of Man and we are glad to have this biographical note from Roy Watling. It might also be noted that Peter Holland recently picked up one of Dr Kotlaba's papers in Ceska Mykologie on 'Two rare quercicolous xanthochroic polypores in Czechoslovakia', abstract in Bulletin 8. 2 p.83.
Frantisek Kotlaba , a member of the staff at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague is probably known to some of the Society's members through his attendance at the Third European Mycological Congress held in Glasgow in 1963. At that meeting Dr Kotlaba gave a progress report on the /European Mapping Scheme in which he made an appeal to the Soviet mycologists to play an active role in the Scheme ; he was a member of the Steering Committee for the Mapping Scheme, the results of the first fifty selected species having been published recently. Or Kotlaba is an active correspondent with many mycologists outside Czechoslovakia with an interest in many aspe cts of the study of larger fungi, particularly Basidiomycetes. He has published on agaric and polypore groups, particularly on their ecology and distribution. One of his most recent contributions in fact is on the geographical distribution and ecology of Phellinus torulas us appearing in the journal Ceska Mycologie . He is on the editorial board of this journal and is a regular contributor; his photographs frequently appear and show his aptitude for photography. Dr Kotlaba has solved in the past several rather tricky nomenc1atorial problems ; he frequently coauthors with his colleague Z. Pouzar. R. Watling REPORTS OF FORAYS from 'OTHER SOCIETIES'. We much appreciate having accounts of the forays and findings of kindred Societies for publication in the Bulletin. Peter Holland has kindly agreed to look after this and I expect many of our regular contributors will already be in touch with him. Secretaries or recorders of societies who have perhaps not contributed recently are cordially invited to write him at 28 , Hetherington Road, Clapham, London SW4 7NU. This is a great help in getting the Bulletin ready especially when , as is usually the case , your Editor is pushed for time. M.N. REPORTS FROM OTHER SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS Bridgnorth (Shropshire) British Naturalists' Association, 11 October 1975. The party visited a picturesque rocky Bluff forming a promontory of the Keuper Sandstone escarpment known as Nessc1iff between Shrewsbury and Oswestry, the thickly wooded slopes of which have many mature oaks and beeches amongst it s deciduous trees, and many fine specimens of Scots Pine in addition to other con ifers. Unfortunately, the site was very dry, perhaps not surprisingly for a sh arply elevated sandstone knoll, and only 41 species were listed. While no rare species were recorded , the fine and ch aracteristic colour of a number of perfect specimens of My cena pura was much admired and similar interest was evoked at the colourful display provided by an unusually large tuft of Flammulina velu tipes and a large cut pine stump brightly decorated with masses of Chondrostereum purpureum. E. Blackwell.
B.M.S. Spring Foray May 13-18 1976 is to be held at PIas Tanybwlch, Maentwrog, Snowdonia National Park. This study centre is a man sion house set in its own grounds , with comfortable accommodation , laboratory space, library, bar and lounge and as if that were not enough, its own railway station on one of the famous little train services of Wales. Dr. F. KOTLABA is to be our Guest of Honour at the autumn foray this year in the Isle of Man and we are glad to have this biographical note from Roy Watling. It might also be noted that Peter Holland recently picked up one of Dr Kotlaba's papers in Ceska Mykologie on 'Two rare quercicolous xanthochroic polypores in Czechoslovakia', abstract in Bulletin 8. 2 p.83.
Frantisek Kotlaba , a member of the staff at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague is probably known to some of the Society's members through his attendance at the Third European Mycological Congress held in Glasgow in 1963. At that meeting Dr Kotlaba gave a progress report on the /European Mapping Scheme in which he made an appeal to the Soviet mycologists to play an active role in the Scheme ; he was a member of the Steering Committee for the Mapping Scheme, the results of the first fifty selected species having been published recently. Or Kotlaba is an active correspondent with many mycologists outside Czechoslovakia with an interest in many aspe cts of the study of larger fungi, particularly Basidiomycetes. He has published on agaric and polypore groups, particularly on their ecology and distribution. One of his most recent contributions in fact is on the geographical distribution and ecology of Phellinus torulas us appearing in the journal Ceska Mycologie . He is on the editorial board of this journal and is a regular contributor; his photographs frequently appear and show his aptitude for photography. Dr Kotlaba has solved in the past several rather tricky nomenc1atorial problems ; he frequently coauthors with his colleague Z. Pouzar. R. Watling REPORTS OF FORAYS from 'OTHER SOCIETIES'. We much appreciate having accounts of the forays and findings of kindred Societies for publication in the Bulletin. Peter Holland has kindly agreed to look after this and I expect many of our regular contributors will already be in touch with him. Secretaries or recorders of societies who have perhaps not contributed recently are cordially invited to write him at 28 , Hetherington Road, Clapham, London SW4 7NU. This is a great help in getting the Bulletin ready especially when , as is usually the case , your Editor is pushed for time. M.N. REPORTS FROM OTHER SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS Bridgnorth (Shropshire) British Naturalists' Association, 11 October 1975. The party visited a picturesque rocky Bluff forming a promontory of the Keuper Sandstone escarpment known as Nessc1iff between Shrewsbury and Oswestry, the thickly wooded slopes of which have many mature oaks and beeches amongst it s deciduous trees, and many fine specimens of Scots Pine in addition to other con ifers. Unfortunately, the site was very dry, perhaps not surprisingly for a sh arply elevated sandstone knoll, and only 41 species were listed. While no rare species were recorded , the fine and ch aracteristic colour of a number of perfect specimens of My cena pura was much admired and similar interest was evoked at the colourful display provided by an unusually large tuft of Flammulina velu tipes and a large cut pine stump brightly decorated with masses of Chondrostereum purpureum. E. Blackwell.