more funds were available, and it is hoped that each member 

 will do his best to induce others to become members. The 

 Museum Committee will also be glad to receive any natural 

 histor}^ specimens, and we beg to remind everyone that this 

 Museum will be a County affair, and will not belong to a local 

 society, and therefore, we feel that we have a claim upon 

 everyone who is connected with Lincolnshire, either by birth 

 or residence. 



In conclusion, I should like to say a few words with regard to 

 the aims of the Union. We are not, what many Unions un- 

 fortunately are, a mere " list-collecting " Union, neither is it our 

 highest ambition to record new species, or find new localities for 

 species already recorded. Neither do we sympathise with those 

 students, whose labours are entirely confined to the laboratory, and 

 who, possessing great skill in microscopical preparations, yet 

 never dream of studying the life history of the creature they are 

 sectionising. 



We wish to unite these two widely different classes of Nat- 

 uralists ; to inspire the field naturalist with a desire to know the 

 minute structure of the creature whose distribution and habits 

 he may be studying ; to inspire the microscopist with a desire 

 to know more of the habits and distribution of the beast whose 

 anatomy he knows so well ; for we are convinced, that, it is only 

 by a judicious combination of both these kinds of naturalists 

 that any really effective work can be done. 



We have to regret the loss to the Union of two of our first 

 members who have now left the county, one, Mr. Carr, 

 formerly of Lincoln, was a Geologist of no mean order, whose 

 place will be very difficult to fill. The second one, Mr. Joseph 

 Coe, was for a year my co-secretary, and his removal caused a 

 gap difficult to fill. 



As most of you will be aware, my term of office is now over, 

 and I here beg most sincerely to express my best thanks to all 

 the members, for the kind way in which they have always given 

 me every information and help in their power, in connection with 

 the work of the Union, and hope most heartily to meet them 

 often, both in the field and in the lecture room. 



Yours faithfully, 

 Dec, 1894. Walter F. Baker, Hon. Sec. 



