Yorkshire Naturalists' Union

The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union is an association of amateur and professional naturalists covering a wide range of aspects of natural history. It is one of United Kingdom's oldest extant wildlife organisations and oldest natural history federation. Its Mycological Committee, founded in 1892, is the oldest permanent organisation dedicated to the study of fungi in Great Britain.[1]

  1. ^ Smith, Nathan (2021). "Of stumps and stipes: comparisons between the cultures and identities of Yorkshire cricket and mycology at the turn of the twentieth century". Notes and Records. 77: 5–18. doi:10.1098/rsnr.2021.0036. S2CID 237435704.