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even the Nutcracker has been known. Not being a master in 
ornithology, I must leave to other hands the smaller species, 
merely saying the Nightingale has since 1893, become an annual 
visitor. 
From the point of view of the conchologist, this district has 
never yet received the careful systematic study it deserves. 
Workers have come and gone that is all. The Rands collection 
made in 1849 to 1851, I have never been able to trace ; the same 
may be said of the Ball collection. ‘The pioneer list of Lincoln- 
shire Land and Freshwater Shells for Lincolnshire was, however, 
roughly made from this latter gathering from this district. Mr. 
John Beaulah, of Raventhorpe, has a collection, too, which 
contains gatherings made between 1860 and 1865. I myself have 
seen good varieties of Arion ater,and Limax maximus in the woods 
‘and quarries. L. cineveo-nigey eating a Polyporus on an ash. 
Helix hortensis, lilacina, is unique for Lincolnshire in one wood- 
land quarry. ‘lwo Clausilia, if not more, H. aculeata, H. lapicida, 
 Hyalinia fulva, and Vertigo edentula. Ihave been told Clycostoma 
too, but this and the ‘“‘ stone cutter” I have not personally taken. 
Information about all existing material from this district would 
be specially valuable to the Union just now. 
The Entomology, thanks to its varied flora, was once as rich 
as any other department. ‘Things, however, of late have changed 
_ for the worse. Mrs. Cross perhaps knows more of it now than 
anyone else. ‘The late Charles 5. Holgate, of Low Risby, told me 
that the drainage of lowland and bog had been most destructive, 
but this was not so serious a damage as the iron-works on the 
_ west to the Lepidoptera :—‘* Hundreds of thousands of moths perish 
annually by being drawn by the glare of the Scunthorpe lights to 
destruction above the moulten metal. No fauna can stand sucha 
‘constant: drain.” ‘The little beetle collecting I have done was 
most successful, and the fungus gathering, and pond dredging 
equally rich in good finds. So far as I remember the mosses 
; proved the most unremunerative work I ever attempted in the 
B oughton Woods. 
