8 Resume of Field Meetings. 
On August 5th the seventh meeting was held at SUEAFORD, 
when 264 species of flowering plants were noted. 
In the same month, on the 23rd, the eighth meeting was held 
at LINWOOD Warren and woods, a favourite ground for Lincoln- 
shire naturalists. A fine botanical and entomological area. 
The ninth meeting at LINCOLN, on October 3rd, was 
another great day in the history of the Union. In the morning 
members started for the Skellingthorpe and Canwick woods. 
In the afternoon the Museum was opened by the Right Rev. the 
Lord Bishop of Lincoln, and in the evening the annual meeting 
was held. 
At GRANTHAM, on June r6th, 1896, the tenth meeting 
came off. Mr. H. Preston, F.G.S., led the party through the 
Ancaster and Willoughby quarries, and pointed out the notable 
geological features of the area. 
The eleventh meeting was held at BOURNE on August 3rd. 
The botanical and geological studies were extremely interesting, 
and some good species taken. 
A meeting at GREAT COTES on September 8th constituted 
the twelfth Field day, the home of that great observer no longer 
with us, the late John Cordeaux, M.B.O.U., who entertained the 
visitors. The ground consisted of the salt marsh, the Humber, 
and on the land side the prolific little area known as Aylesby bog. 
The thirteenth meeting, held June gth and roth, 1897, was 
at GAINSBOROUGH, for Lea and Scotton Commons. ‘This 
has been a happy hunting-ground for all students of Natural 
History for over a hundred years. 
The fourteenth meeting, held in conjunction with the Louth 
Society, on August 2nd, was at HOLBECK and TETFORD. 
The Rev. J. Conway Walter read a paper on “ Hoe Hill.” The 
district was an attractive one, both for antiquary and naturalist. 
On August 26th the fifteenth meeting was held at BOSTON, 
for Wyberton Marsh. A large number of entomological and 
botanical records were made. ‘The party was entertained to tea 
by Mr. and Mrs. Lane-Claypon, of Tytton Hall. 
The sixteenth meeting was at LINWOOD on September 30. 
Fifty-four species of fungi, and sixty-one species of flowering 
plants, and a large number of Lepidoptera were recorded, 
