FIELD MEETINGS, . 1908. 
The Union held its Fifty-ninth Field Meeting at HOLTON 
PARK, on the rath of June. ‘The early morning had been 
showery, but a fair company under the circumstances foregathered 
and had a most enjoyable day, finishing up with a plenteous feast, 
generously provided by Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, at the Station Hotel. 
The soil of this district is pure blown sand. It is partly the 
residual detritus of the cut back escarpment of the Wolds, partly 
the moze indestructible portion of the clay beds, and of the 
Plateau Sands and Gravels, which lie on the high portion of the 
valley between cliff and wolds. The greater proportion was 
transported by south-westerly winds long before the enclosures 
came in the early part of last century. What we can say of 
this soil for certain is that it is subsequent in date to the Chalky 
Boulder Clay on which theeolian sands lie. In other words, this 
means that it is younger in time than man’s advent into the 
district we now call Britain, or that it is after the age of the large 
mammals such as hippotamus, woolly rhinocerus, and mammoth ; 
though it must have been accumulating from approximately their 
time till the enclosures. ‘The planting of woods, ‘‘ wind breaks,” 
and hedges stopped at once the drift of the sands in heavy gales 
from the south-west. = 
The flora of the district is interesting, but limited by soil 
conditions. The species noted were 170, from forest trees to 
garden weeds. The three best were Apium inundatum, Botry- 
chium Lunaria, and Pyrola minor. The first of these was quite 
unexpected, and therefore the best. All three are confined to very 
limited areas and rare. ‘The other species were what might be 
expected by the soil botanist, gopodium near houses only, 
Chelidonium, flove pleno, the same, with Corydalis bulbosa and 
C. lutea. Geranium lucidum is a garden weed and escape in many 
places. The sandy soil in woodland, pasture or tilth provided 
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