Crossland, C. (Charles), 1844-1916

found: Massee, G. The fungus flora of Yorkshire, 1905:t.p. (C. Crossland, F.L.S., Halifax Hon. Secretary of the Yorkshire Mycological Committee)

found: Transactions of the British Mycological Society, 1916:vol. 15, pp. 466-469 (obituary: Charles Crossland (1844-1916); well-known Halifax naturalist, died in his native town on December 9th, 1916; born on September 3rd, 1844; at the age of sixteen he commenced to learn the trade of a butcher, and when twenty opened a meat, grocery and general store at Wyke, where he remained until 1873 when he returned to Halifax having purchased a butchery trade there; attended the fungus foray of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Leeds in 1888; first paper on fungi appeared in 1890, "Fungi new to W. Yorks"; one of the finest of the justly-celebrated north country working men naturalists)