@Ghe Presidents 
OF THE 
Liincolnshire TQaturalists’ QO{nion. 
THE 
REY. J. CONWAY WALTER, B.A. 
HE REV. JAMES CONWAY WALTER, who 
was President of our Union in 1900, is a man of 
many activities. He was the son of the Rev. Edward 
Walter, and was born at his father’s Rectory at Langton, 
29th January, 1831. He was educated at the Grammar 
School, Horncastle; the Proprietary School, Woolwich; and 
at St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge, where he was Skerne 
- Scholar, and where he graduated B.A., in 1853, in double 
Honors. After holding several curacies he was Vicar of 
Woodhall Spa and of Kirkstead from 1869 to 1889. Since 
1890 he has been Rector of Langton and Vicar of Old 
Woodhall. \ 
Mr. Walter, who has conducted five of the Union 
excursions, has been a devoted lover of nature from his 
boyhood. He has made curious experiments in hybridism, 
has been a great deer-stalker, and has detailed his experiences 
in three volumes: “ Letters from the Highlands ;” “ Highland 
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Forays;” and “Fin, Fur and Feather;’’ and more recently 
in a volume entitled ‘‘ Stray Leaves, or Travel, Sport, &c.,” 
which has been most favourably reviewed. 
