110 Addvess to the Lincolnshive Naturalists’ Union. 
direction of the study of nature. His first find was that of 
Nevitina fluviatilis at the bend of the river near Newark, his 
native town, and he made observations upon various species of 
land sheils. Removing to Grantham on attaining manhood, he 
diligently collected the land and freshwater shells of that neigh- 
bourhood and studied them with Captain Brown’s [Illustrations 
of British Shells as a text-book. The freshwater shells of the 
Canal then recently opened from Grantham to Nottingham, 
supplied him with many examples—and along the lanes and 
fields the Helices were not at allscarce. It was about 1854 that 
he collected Helix lapicida, the identical specimens being now in 
his collection—as also are those of Clausilia laminata, which he 
found in Ropsley Rise Wood. Numerous other species were 
found by him as early as this—and his interest in the mollusca 
has been more or less continuous ever since—and for the past 
decade he has been as active and keen an investigator as many a 
man half his age. The only regret we can have is that he has 
never published any account of the Grantham shells—and that 
there is therefore no record in print of the admirable work he 
accomplished during a long and well-spent life. 
We have also amongst us another investigator who is only 
second to Mr. Hawkins in point of time. Our good friend and 
ex-President, Mr. F. M. Burton, of Gainsborough, though 
essentially a geologist, has also interested himself in our mollus- 
can fauna, and his collection contains species which he gathered 
in his neighbourhood, as well as previously in Rutlandshire, 
many years ago. 
The long interregnum in printed records since the Listerian 
epoch was broken in 1848, when Mr. E. S. Peacock, Jun., a 
near relative of our own active ex-President, published in the 
*“« Zoologist *’ a note on the Habits of the Pond Mussel as observed 
at Bottesford, where it abounded in a peat pond, and also in 
the Trent, which was salt-water at high tide. 
We now come to the first list of shells for any part of 
Lincolnshire which has ever been printed. 
Mr. Thomas Ball, of Brigg, who was born in Lincolnshire 
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on the 5th March, 1833, and died at Auckland, New Zealand, 
