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LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION 
AT LINCOLN. 
THE third meeting of the above Union was held at Lincoln on 
Thursday, May 24th, 1894, and was fairly well attended, there being 
present representatives of all the sections. 
This meeting was not only an excursion, but also the Annual 
Meeting for 1893, which had been intentionally delayed in order to 
secure a good attendance of members. The district chosen for 
investigation was a peculiarly attractive one. Very little as yet has 
been done at the natural history of Lincolnshire, and Lincoln, 
despite the fact of being the county town, has not escaped the 
general fate. Many new and interesting records were made, and 
the members generally were well satisfied with the results of the 
excursion. 
The marshy nature of the surrounding country, with its abundance 
of old ponds and drains, advantageously varied in places with well- 
wooded tracts, not too carefully ‘preserved,’ proved an ideal spot 
for the naturalist, and well repaid the investigator. 
Permission to pass over their estates had been kindly given by 
Nathaniel Clayton-Cockburn, Esq., J.P., of Hartsholme Hall, a life 
member of the Union, and Colonel R. G. Ellison, J.P. The best 
thanks of the Union are also due to Mr. Alfred Fieldsend, of Lincoln, 
for the assistance he so willingly gave the Hon. Secs. in making the 
preliminary arrangements. 
The route arranged was by Brayford, along the bank of the 
Foss-dyke, then passing by the Swan Pools Cross to North 
Hykeham, passing through Hartsholme Woods, the whole route 
being in ‘South’ Lincolnshire. 
B © p.m. most of the members had found their way back to 
Lincoln, and after partaking of much-needed and well-earned refresh- 
ment at the Saracen’s Head Hotel, the meeting was held, Mr. F. M. 
Burton, F.L.S., F.G.S., the President for i being in the chair. 
The sectional reports were first giv 
For the Geological Section, Mr. Pate reported | as follows :— 
The escarpment on which Lincoln stands is composed throughout | 
of Lias Beds, with a capping of Oolite tics The Lias is 
represented by all its three divisions, Upper, Middle, and Lower. 
The Upper, which can be studied in several brick-pits in the neigh- 
bourhood, contains many Belemnites with Ammonites bifrons, Am. 
Serpentinus, Am. communis, Nucula hammeri, etc., may be well seen 
in Messrs. Swans’ brickyard on the North Cliff, where it attains 
a thickness of about roo feet. The Middle, to which access is 
August 1894. 
