172 Address to the Lincolnshive Naturalists’ Union. 
As to Marine and to Fossil Mollusca, we have again to look 
to Dr. Lister as the great precursor, as his book of 1678 contains 
descriptions of the commoner and more generally known species 
of this group. Since his time very little attention has been paid 
to the marine mollusca of the Lincolnshire Coast until Mr. F. M. 
Burton gave a list of what he obtained at Mablethorpe and 
Cleethorpes in August 1857. Subsequently to this, collecting 
was done by Messrs. J. T. Marshall, B. Sturges Dodd, Arthur 
Smith, and H. Wallis Kew, culminating in the publication by 
the last-named of a List of 187 species of Shells of the Lincoln- 
shire Coast (Nat., Dec. 1889, pp. 357-365). 
The Fishes of Lincolnshire have not been specially studied 
nor worked out, and the only list is Mr. Brogden’s posthumous 
one of the Fishes of the Lincolnshire Wash and Fenland 
(Nat., Dec. 1899, pp. 357-391). There are, of course, numerous 
records published in the journals, and various interesting species 
have been noted, such as the Swordfish and Short Sunfish, the 
Greenland Shark, the Tope, etc., in Boston Deeps. 
The Reptiles and Amphibians, although they may be 
considered to be quite well known, have never been critically 
studied, and no list has been published. The Natterjack Toad, 
first found by Sir Joseph Banks, occurs plentifully on the coast 
line. Of Lizards two have been reported as Lacerta agilis and 
L. viridis, but these names are evidently incorrect, and it remains 
to be shown whether we have any species but the common 
Zootoca vivipara. 
The Ornithology of the County has had numerous votaries, 
and to a large extent has been well, if not quite evenly, worked 
out. The coast line and the mouth of the Humber are classic 
ground for the student of bird-migration, due to the long- 
continued steady and close observations carried out over so 
many years by the late Mr. John Cordeaux and Mr. G. H. Caton 
Haigh. 
The claim of a few birds to inclusion in the British List 
depends either wholly, or in part, on their being obtained on the 
coast line of our county, such as the Greenish Willow Warbler, 
