turn up during the period of migration, far out of their ordinary 

 route, I think we should attach very little importance to the in- 

 crease of any local or county list by the addition of mere wan- 

 derers. The record of such is interesting as showing how far 

 some birds get driven out of their normal course. The chief 

 additions to the H umber district in late years have come from 

 Spurn, but there is no reason why equally good results should 

 not be obtained from our own coast. 



The flora of the marshes and the sea-coast is a very attractive 

 and interesting one, and our knowledge of the same, as well as 

 of Lincolnshire botany generally, has been greatly increased by 

 the researches of the Rev. W. Fowler, of Liversedge ; Dr. F. 

 Arnold Lees, of Harrogate ; the Rev. Adrian WoodrufFe-Pea- 

 cock ; Mr. F. M. Burton ; Mr. O. Thimbleby, of Spilsby, 

 and others. 



The collection of facts in connection with this district com- 

 menced as far back as 1590, and the great naturalists of for- 

 mer days — Gerarde, Ray, Dr. Martin Lister, and Sir Joseph 

 Banks — have each in turn visited and investigated its floral 

 treasures. 



Before leaving this portion of the countyT' should like to call 

 attention to the marine mammalia, the seals, and various forms 

 of whale, grampus, porpoise, and dolphin. Although in recent 

 years considerable additions have been made to our local list, 

 we still require much further knowledge and more scientific in- 

 vestigations. The capture of a seal or the stranding of a whale 

 — and such occurrences are by no means unfrequent — should at 

 once be noted, and an examination carried out on the spot, care- 

 ful notes and measurements made, the skull, at least, preserved, 

 and where possible a photograph taken before the carcase is 

 removed. In this branch of zoology, as well as ornithology, the 

 official representative of our Vertebrate Section, Mr. G. H. Caton 

 Haigh, has done some excellent work. There is, so far as I 

 know, no list of marine fish ; the collection of facts in connection 

 with these and with Marine Zoology generally, might well be 

 taken up by those members who live near or have most frequent 

 access to the coast. The Entomology, more particularly in this 

 district the Aquatic-entomology, Conchology, and Micro-zoology 

 and Botany, also present wide fields for close and careful study. 

 In the former we have in the Rev. Canon W. W. Fowler, a 



