Address to the L.N.U. 139 
In connection with our Geological section I would suggest 
4 the appointment of a boulder committee, whose object will be to 
take observations relative to the erratic or ice-borne blocks of 
‘Lincolnshire, their character, position, size, origin and height 
above the sea. This to be carried out on the same lines generally 
-asthose adopted by the boulder committee of the British 
"Association. 
The two distinct ranges of chalk and oolite which run from 
south to north of the county form elevated tracts which in their 
“original condition were heath and moorland, and almost destitute 
‘of timber trees. Along the flanks of these hills and in the inter- 
yening low country stretched the deep forests of Kesteven and 
Lindsey—the Bruneswald—oak, ash, elm, beech, fir, holly, yew, 
and hazel, sufficient remains existing in some of our oldest wood- 
lands to recall the ancient glories of the land. No better “happy 
hunting grounds” remain to reward the naturalist than these 
comparatively undisturbed areas. Here 1884, an example of 
deer, Bos longifrons, wolf, wild boar, and beavers, have been 
found in the becks. We have as yet no list of Lincolnshire 
mammals, and I shall be greatly indebted to any of our members 
wl o will enable me to complete a list, which is already partially 
prepared, with notes from their respective districts. 
The heath is another most charming faunal area, from the 
fact that some few scattered portions are still in their primitive 
condition, as in the neighbourhood of Woodhall Spa and the 
trens and commons of Scotton, Manton, Twigmoor, Crosby and 
umby, in the north-east. The Ermin Street, that great military 
hway of the Romans, which passed through the gates of their 
hief fortress, Lincoln, followed the ridge of the oolite from south 
fo north—to east and west of this was a wide, open and con- 
luous stretch of elevated tableland, the road running through 
ues of purple heather where the pink and purple shading of 
he common and cross-leaved heaths, intermingled with the 
w blooms of the pretty whin and sheets of pale blue hairbell, 
nd the darker blue gentian (Gentiana pneumonanthe.) A glorious 
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