Activities
In addition to meetings and publications, the Society is involved in the teaching of mycology. It organizes regular field-trips, both in the United Kingdom and abroad, often in formal association with the mycological society in the host country, as for example, the 1952 series of field-trips in France in concert with the Société mycologique de France.
In 1971 under the leadership of then president Terence Ingold, the Society organized and hosted the first international congress of mycologists at Exeter. Eight mycological societies were represented.
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