Address to the Lincolnshive Naturalists’ Union. 167 
and in the same journal for Feb.~1902 (pp. 59-61) Mr. J. Larder 
gave a list of the Lincolnshire species, which was added to in 
1905 by a list of Diatoms and Desmids found at Stamford by Mr. 
Arthur Smith (Nat., Oct. 1905, p. 316), and in 1903 Mr. Smith 
gave a list of 46 Diatoms found at Clee (Nat., Ap. 1903, p. 122). 
As to the Marine Alge, we appear to have nothing but 
casual and isolated records, and no one seems ever to have 
systematically collected them on our coast-line. 
The Marine Zoology of our coast-line seems to have been 
similarly neglected for want of observers, except for the work 
done by the Grimsby naturalists while Mr. Arthur Smith was 
resident there. 
We have only isolated records of the Echinodermata or the 
Coelenterata and Protozoa—while as for the Vermes there are 
only Mr. F. M. Burton’s notes of the Zoophytes collected by our 
Union at Mablethorpe in rgo1 (Nat., May 1901, p. 153) and Mr. 
G. R. Vine’s list of two dozen Polyzoa which he collected at 
Cleethorpes in 1892. 
: What we know of the Foraminifera is the paleontological 
_ work of Messrs. Burrows, Sherborn and Bailey (1890). 
Nor do we seem to have much more than a few casual 
records of Crustaceans. 
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. _ So that altogether the natural history of the extensive coast- 
_ line of our County is practically unknown and needs working by 
. those who happen to have the opportunity. 
| As regards the terrestrial fauna, beginning with the lowest 
_ groups, we have no record for Freshwater Sponges. 
4 What work has been done as regards the microscopic life of 
our fresh waters has been by our Secretary, Mr. Smith, and 
his friend, Mr. Walter J. Wood, who published a list of 66 
} species of Infusoria of the Grimsby District in 1902 (Nat., July 
1902, pp. 209-210) and of 15 found at Stamford in 1905 (Nat., 
* 1905, pp. 316-317). 
ij As to the Worms inhabiting land and fresh waters we have 
_ only a record of Pachydrilus verrucosus from Grantham in 1897, and 
_ of the remarkable land-planarian Rhynchodemus tervestris found by 
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_ Mr. H. Wallis Kew near Louth in the same year. 
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