LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS.* 
WE have here another number of the ‘Transactions of the 
Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union,’ which keeps up the interest, 
the varied nature, and the excellence done by the active 
workers in that county. 
The frontispiece, a good likeness of Mr. F. M. Burton, 
F.G.S., F.L.S., who was the Union’s second president, is 
accompanied by a sketch of the career of one who has done 
sterling work in various departments of natural history, more 
especially geology. 
Mr. G. W. Mason has a good list, with remarks on localities 
and a summary of the districts range of each, of the Lincoln- 
shire butterflies, of which there are no fewer than fifty-six, 
including such good things as Zycena semiargus, Polyommatus 
dispar, Aporia crategt, Papilio machaon, Apatura tris, Limenttts 
stbylla, etc. Mr. Mason has drawn upon the work and experience 
of numerous observers, to whom due credit is given. 
A similar excellent list of the Lincolnshire Liverworts, forty- 
three in number, by Miss S. C. Stow, follows. To this paper 
are prefixed some general remarks on the group, by Mr. J. 
Reeves, F.L.S. 
The presidential address, from which the President’s name 
is conspicuous by its absence, no doubt merely an inadvertence, 
deals with ‘ Natural Habitats and Nativeness,’ in which the 
Rev. E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, F.L.S., F.G.S., discusses 
an interesting botanical subject in his own inimitable style, and 
we note that there is scarcely such a thing as ‘a natural habitat’ 
in the second largest English county, so great has been the 
influence of man in altering the surface. Mr. C. S. Carter 
follows with a list, with habitats, of ‘Additions to Lincoln- 
shire Non-Marine Mollusca’— the additions being varieties 
and fresh localities for ~ thirty-eight species. ‘Notes ‘on 
Local Occurrence of MNerztina fluvaitilis,’ by Mr. John F. 
Musham, a new and welcome writer in these Transactions, 
discusses local distribution near the city of Lincoln. The Rev. 
E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock has a page on ‘Rare Lincolnshire 
Plants,’ really @ plant, Cyclamen hederefolium (Ait.) The 
County Museum is the subject of a page, and also a plate of 
* Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union Transactions, 1906. Edited by Arthur 
Smitn, F.L.S., F.E.S. Printed by Wiggen Bros., Louth, Lincs. (8vo., pp. 
73-128, and two plates). 
1907 October 1. 
