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Address to the Lincolnshive Naturalists’ Union. 241 
Union, the Rev. Canon W. W. Fowler, in his great work on 
the British Coleoptera published in 1887. 
The stimulus given to the study by this work was felt in our 
county as in all others. 
After this date we find many names associated with our 
records—Mr. J. Eardley Mason, Mr. W. F. Baker, Mr. R. W. 
Goulding, Mr. G. W. Mason and others who are continually 
sending specimens to us. 
Turning for a moment to the Grimsby district, I am told by 
our esteemed secretary, Mr. A. Smith, that when he was a boy 
he knew well a poor cobbler, Mr. C. K. Tero, living in a two- 
roomed cottage in the “eight foot’? between Kent Street and 
Church Street, Grimsby. This humbie naturalist, after the 
manner of Thomas Edwards, the Scottish Naturalist, was most 
devoted to Entomology and accumulated a large collection of 
local Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. His collections were held 
and cherished by his family until beyond redemption, then 
scattered, and there are no traces of them now. He imparted, 
however, a stimulus and help to Mr. Smith in these days which 
has been handed on to us. 
Mr. Smith worked at the Grimsby Coleoptera as well as at 
almost all other branches of Natural History, and he founded 
the Grimsby and District Antiquarian and Naturalists’ Society. 
While Mr. Smith was still at Grimsby all our records were 
supervised and enormously expanded by the work of our 
esteemed friend the Rev. A. Thornley, aided by the constant 
efforts of the Rev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock, who helps so much 
in every branch. 
To Miss S. C. Stow we owe most of our knowledge of the 
species of the South V.C. 53. 
In his preparation of a list of our Coleoptera for the Victoria 
County History of Lincolnshire, Mr. Thornley brought every- 
thing quite up to date and it is owing to his methodical work 
and well-known ability as a coleopterist, that we can publish the 
list we have. 
All references to the County in the Entomological publica- 
tions and in the ‘ Naturalist,’ bearing on our County Coleoptera 
