Addvess to the Lincolnshive Naturalists’ Union.. 111 
on the 30th January, 1906, was a keen naturalist, a man of 
artistic skill, deep religious feeling, and high character. He left 
Lincolnshire for New Zealand about 33 years ago, taking his 
collections with him to Auckland. Life is oft a record of 
missed opportunities, and I myself now regret that I missed 
the chance of seeing Mr. Ball during his lifetime ; for I spent a 
fortnight in Auckland in February and March, 1905, only ten 
months before Mr. Ball’s death, and I was a frequent visitor to 
the museum there and made the acquaintance of more than one 
conchologist, including Mr. Henry Suter.* 
It was in 1864 that Mr. Ball published what I have called , 
the ‘‘ Pioneer List of Lincolashire Land and Freshwater Shells.”’ 
It appeared in a magazine called ‘‘ Young England’”’ for May, 
1864, and it enumerated without any remark or annotation the 
names of 68 species, all but five of which had been taken within 
a radius of a mile and a half round Brigg. The list is a sound 
and reliable one and has been verified since by the more recent 
researches of the Rev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock, who states 
that it is too accurate to admit of any doubt. The only other 
contribution made by Mr. Ball to our subject is a record in 1868 
(in ‘‘ Science Gossip”) of a white variety of Planorbis mtidus 
at Brigg. 
The next investigator in point of time is our friend Mr. Hi 
Wallis Kew, F.z.s., formerly of Louth, whose collecting was 
done on the same ground as that of Martin Lister, most of whose 
records he has verified and confirmed. The results of his first 
researches were embodied in a note by Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell 
on Louth Shells, enumerating 24 species with localities, published 
in the Naturalists’ World for December, 1885. That publica- 
tion also contained numerous excellent articles on the Louth 
natural history from Mr. Kew’s own pen. ‘‘ The Naturalist ”’ 
also, under my own editorship, and other magazines, contained 
various notes of his writing. In 1886 alone were published no 
* P.S.—June 1910. I am now in possession of all that is to be 
known about Mr. Ball, thanks to my friends Dr. and Mrs. Longstaff, who 
visited New Zealand during the past winter; they visited his widow and 
inspected his collection. Mrs. Ball was also good enough to send for my 
inspection Mr. Ball’s own catalogue of his collection, which supplies the 
data wanting in his published list—W. D. R. 
