42 Lincolnshire Notes & Queries. 



It was hoped that some of the visitors would form a party 

 for the investigation of the geology of Donington and district, 

 and this section was represented by Mr. F. M. Burton, 

 F.L.S., F.G.S., President of the Union, Mr. Jos. Mawer, Mr. 

 O. Burdett and Miss Burdett, who, under the leadership of 

 Mr. S. Cresswell, proceeded to Donington, thence in a westerly 

 direction towards South Willingham and back by Benniworth 

 Haven to the east end of Benniworth Tunnel, examining the 

 railway cuttings on the way. At Stenigot they diverged and 

 made for Goulceby Top, and then crossing the Heath Road 

 reached the east end of Withcall Tunnel, afterwards turning 

 towards Louth, and passing Raithby Brackens and Hubbard's 

 Valley. The party observed the marine equivalents of the 

 Weald and southern beds, and found good sections of the red 

 chalk, (a member of the Gault), the carstone, the pink chalk, 

 (near Louth), and other strata. 



The fungus section was strongly represented, among the 

 party being some of the most eminent mycologists in the 

 country, the principal being Mr. George Massee, of the Royal 

 Herbarium, Kew, author of the British Fungus-Flora^ and Mr. 

 Carleton Rea, M.A., B.C.L., Worcester. Other able men 

 were Mr. H. T. Soppitt and Mr. Charles Crossland of Halifax. 

 The local members metaphorically sat at the feet of these 

 Gamaliels, whose excellent services they highly appreciated. 

 Others who joined the section were Mr. J. W. Sutcliffe of 

 Halifax, Mr. Sneath and Mr. Fieldsend of Lincoln, Mr. B. 

 Brow, Mr. T. Gelsthorp, Mr. G. Vere, Mr. V. T, Crow, and 

 Mr. R. W. Goulding of Louth, and Mr. Walter F. Baker, 

 F.E.S., the indefatigable secretary of the Union. 



Some of the excursionists reached Louth on Saturday and 

 worked Hubbard's Valley, Welton Vale, and the neighbourhood 

 of Elkington before the official proceedings commenced. 

 They found the lawn in front of Elkington Hall a very 

 produ (Stive spot, their best record being the very rare Psilocybe 

 ptlulteforme. Other species of interest were Hygropkorus foeten s 

 H. glutinifer, Truholoma saponaceum (which emits a soapy odour) 

 and T. personatum^ an edible species, well known by its popular 

 name "Blewitts." On the leaves of some poppies they noticed 

 a disease, Peronospora^ which is allied to the potato disease. 



On Monday morning the party left Louth station at 10.12, 

 booking for Authorpe, whence they proceeded through 

 Muckton, Burwell and Haugham Woods, returning by drag 

 from Cawthorpe Lane. Early in the day a specimen of grass 



