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Mr. F. M. Burton, F.L.S., F.G.S., reports on the Conchology :— 
The district in question proved somewhat barren with regard to 
molluscs. This was partly owing to the nature of the ground passed 
over—a wide, flat, salt marsh, covered occasionally by the sea ; but. 
it was also due to the distance traversed and the want of time 
allowed for search. This last is an evil which, I often think, we are 
too liable to fall into. It was certainly the case at our first meeting 
this year at Scotton Common; and, as I had the arrangements to 
make for that excursion myself, I must take the blame. Had we . 
stayed on the Common all the time, we could have found more than 
enough to have occupied the attention of the members present, 
specialists or not; as it is, however, the thorough investigation of 
this most interesting locality remains still to be carried out. 
The only point of any conchological interest met with at Boston 
was the finding of the common cockle (Cardium edule) and Palu 
destrina ventrosa, both together, in the remains of an old creek on 
the land side of the outer sea-bank—a bank which was raised, 
I understand, some 25 years ago—called locally, Sandholme Creek. 
There is apparently no access from the sea into this creek, but the 
Water in it, notwithstanding the lapse of time, is not yet dried. up. 
The cockles are attenuated in texture, small and globular—a sign of 
their having lived for a long time in brackish water—and their open 
valves, lying at the sides, and numerous footprints of small waders 
about, showed one of the uses they are put to. There were many 
shrimps also, of more than one kind, in the water; they came up In 
fact at every lift of the dredge, and, had time permitted, a careful 
search in this old cut-off creek would no doubt have resulted in. 
Matter of much interest. 2 
Colonel Moore, of Frampton Hall, who joined the party, pre 
sented a series of the shells of the Common Mussel (Mytilus edults 
from the spat to two years old, taken from Boston Deeps. . 
Increase in growth of this valuable mollusc from year to year 1s very 
Interesting, and it is satisfactory to find that it is being protected by 
the Fishery Board in this district. 
Miss Lane-Claypon has not only worked the Botany of the 
Boston neighbourhood very fully, but has made most beautiful water 
Coloured sketches of most of our local species. She put a — 
of the neighbourhood into the hands of the Organizing aoe seemide 
: the Species were thoroughly typical of the neighbourhood, and ate 
been recorded over and over again in the ‘ Naturalist and as a . 
€ only two good finds of the day were Festuca arundinacea ees 
badly ergoted, which makes £ ¢datior L., of which till lately 3 Sa 
: Feckoned a variety, so dangerous in the pastures of breeding: farms, 
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