Natural History, 97 



NOTES ON THE ICE-BORNE BLOCKS 

 OF SHAP-GRANITE, &c., FOUND 

 IN LINCOLNSHIRE 



(concluded). 



By THOMAS SHEPPARD, 



Hon. Secretary to Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club, and Member of the 

 Glac'ialhts Association. 



I SHOULD here like to say a few words respecting the 

 Lincolnshire Boulder Committee. It was with very great 

 pleasure that I read in Part I. of the Transactions of the 

 Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union, the Presidential address of 

 Mr. J. Cordeaux, M.B.O.U., in which he proposed (p. 7) that 

 a Boulder Committee should be formed whose object would be 

 c to take observations relative to the erratic or ice-borne blocks 

 of Lincolnshire, their character, position, size, origin and 

 height above the sea. This to be carried out on the same 

 lines generally as those adopted by the Boulder Committee of 

 the British Association.' It is also gratifying to learn that 

 this suggestion has been carried out, the Committee consisting 

 of the following gentlemen : The Rev. W. Tuckwell 

 (Secretary), and Messrs. F. M. Burton, J. H. Cook, H. Preston, 

 A. W. Rowe, E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock and P. F. Kendall. 

 Though only in existence a very short period, a large amount 

 of good work has already been done. Mr. Tuckwell has put 

 on record particulars of a quantity of boulders (including some 

 Norwegian) obtained from a depth of over ten feet at 

 Grimsby,* and during the past summer the Hull Geological 

 Society and the writer have sent particulars of a large number 

 of erratics which have been observed at different places in the 

 county, to the Committee. In May last the Hull Society 

 made an excursion in the Louth neighbourhood, when Mr. 

 Tuckwell, Mr. Kendall (the Secretary of Brit. Assn. Erratic 



* 23rd Report Brit. Assn. Erratic Blocks Committee, 1895. 

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