FOWLER : ADDRESS TO LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS. 15t 
sh to make, have been mostly limited to the immediate neighbour- 
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entomology, workers may be found os wii emu ate such ardent 
geologists as Mr. F. M. Burton and Mr. Cooke, such indefatigable 
botanists as Mr. Peacock and the Rds W. Fowler, and such world- 
renowned ornithologists as Mr. eaux 
| we consider the physical feniieds of Linidolushive we shall see 
a8 it Fd ey to contain a large and varied insect fauna, for 
{ may roughly be. di ae into ae districts, which are quite 
ait in i character; to begin with, there is the large coast 
line, bounded by great sand- pee on rahice: the low thicket of the 
buckthorn iors catharticus) and coarse reeds and grasses give 
shelter to numerous good inse = saat various orders ; in passing, we 
may notice that these dunes in summer are the haunt of 2 rare 
Natterjack Toad ae calamita), sehich has been found by members 
of the Union o mer excursions to Mablethorpe ‘iid the 
Surrounding district ; in the second place there are large expanses of 
wh i e 
Msé€ct fauna of its ow ; quite recently one of the least common 
Species of British Carbide se or ground-beetles, Bembidium stomoides, 
has been found in large numbers near Torkse sey ey by t the 
: 0 has done a great deal of good work at the 
beetles of both ee and, Nottinghamshire. 
If we look a a geological map of the county we shall find that 
the whole saris tier portion, comprising nearly one-fourth of the 
County, is made up of drift or ‘alluvial deposit ; north of this, and 
these somewhat in a direction from N.W. to S.E. are two broad 
“trips of Upper Oolite and chalk, separated by a narrow set) irregular 
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insect fauna of these divisions ; in great measure, of course, it 
pends upon the flora, wrk undoubtedly varies with the —— 
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bal Fas and the permeability or impermeability of the soil has more 
to do with the matter than chemistry. 
om 1897, 
