26 Lincolnshire Notes & Queries. 



educated and thoughtful there is a striving to search and probe 

 downwards into the very sources and origin of all life not 

 alone that we may get a deeper insight into the workings of 

 nature, but to find the key to our own position in connection 

 with the life which is everywhere about us. Men of science 

 are diligently engaged in painfully searching backwards into 

 the infinity of the past, and, considering the results already 

 attained, I think we can look forward with hope to the infinity 

 of the future. Yet, I think, when science has spoken her last 

 word, we shall still have to confess, in the words of Lincoln- 

 shire's noblest son, we are but 



" An infant crying in the night : 

 An infant crying for the light : 

 And with no language but a cry." 



THE LINCOLNSHIRE BOULDER 

 COMMITTEE. 



A COMMITTEE has been appointed by the L. N. U. for 

 the purpose of recording all the facts they can collect 

 concerning the erratics left by the great ice sheet that 

 once overspread the county. It consists of the following 

 members : F. M. Burton, F.G.S. ; J. H. Cooke, B.Sc., 

 F.G.S. ; H. Preston, F.G.S. ; A. W. Rowe, F.G.S. ; Percy 

 F. Kendall, F.G.S. ; E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock, F.G.S. ; and 

 W. Tuckwell. They wish that the following directions should 

 be read over and acted upon in reporting to the Committee's 

 Secretary. 



Shortly, in case of haste, the following points should be 

 noted : 



I. Dimensions of Boulder in length, breadth, height above 



Sound, 

 f what material composed ; Blue-Stone, Red Granite, 

 Grey Granite, Sandstone. 

 3. Rounded or angular, smooth or scratched. 

 More fully, the following : 



(A} ISOLATED BOULDERS. 



i. What is the name of the Parish, Estate, and Farm on 

 which Boulder is situated, adding nearest Town, and 



