ADDRESS TO THE LINCOLNSHIRE 
| NATURALISTS’ UNION. 
GRIMSBY, 1894. 
BrP 3M, BURTON,’ F.L.S:,: F.G.S., 
PRESIDENT, (1895-6).* 
How the Land between Gainsborough and Lincoln was formed. 
In addressing you ona geological subject, as I am about to 
do, I do not forget that this is a Society of Naturalists; and as 
Geology, to those who have not studied it, may perhaps have an 
uninviting aspect, I intend to avoid technical details as far as 
possible, endeavouring at the same time to show that, in point of 
interest, Geology comes quite up to that of any other branch of 
natural science, and perhaps I may say, exceeds most of them. 
Geologists divide the Earth’s strata, for convenience, into 3 
great divisions,—Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary,—and as, in 
Lincolnshire, we have representatives of the entire Secondary 
series, from the strata above the Trias on the west to the chalk on 
the east, this fact alone must give to the Geology of the County 
a special interest and value. I am not, however, going to speak 
__ *This address was originally issued to members in “Transactions” 
_ 1895. That issue being made up of reprints, etc., led to erratic number- 
ing. The section on which this address was printed, was not numbered 
_ atall. To secure the above paper it was decided by the members at the 
_ Annual Meeting, 1907, to publish it in our present ‘“ Transactions,” 
_ being of special interest to the County. 
