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LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION AT GRANTHAM. 
Rey. EDWARD ADRIAN WOODRUFFE-PEACOCK, L.Th., F.L.S., F.G.S., 
Vicar of Cadney; Organising and Botanical Secretary, Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union, 
THE 17th meeting of this society was held at Grantham on 
Tuesday, 7th June, 1898, in the centre of Div. 15. Members of 
the Lincolnshire Science Society, and the Grantham, Grimsby, 
company including the President, Rev. W. Fowler, Liversedge; 
Mr. J. Cordeaux, F.R.G.S., M.B.O.U., Vice-President; 
Dr. G. M. Lowe, President of the Lincolnshire Science Society ; 
the Organising Secretary of the Union, Rev. E. Adrian 
Woodruffe-Peacock, F.L.S., F.G.S.; | Rev. Can Warner, 
Mr. Edm. Turnor, Miss Woolward, Bey. Ww. W. ‘gig (Bootle), 
Major Longstaffe, Mr. J. S. Sneath (Lincoln), Mr. W. Scorer 
(Lincoln), Mr. Grierson, F.L.S. (Lincoln), Mr. Jno. Hawkins, 
Mr. Worsdale, Mr. and Mrs. H. Batty, Mr. and Miss Stow 
(Brandon), Miss Paterson, Mr. Kirkby, the Misses Garvey 
(Manthorpe); Messrs. B. Crow, T: Gelsthorp, J. Larder, and 
J. Mawer (Louth), etc., the whole party numbering about 50. 
The pleasure of a very successful excursion was greatly 
enhanced by the careful preparation of the route, and by 
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excellent programmes and diagrams; Mr. H. Preston, F.G.S., 
as local secretary, being entirely responsible for this golendid 
management. 
The party left the George Hotel at 11.30 a.m. in carriages 
and drove to Saltersford. There they examined some Roman 
_ Ornaments and a large number of ornamented fragments of 
Romano-British pottery found recently while making excava- 
From this spot their walk led them along the bank of the. 
_ Witham to Bath spring—a powerful overflow spring—in the, 
Rookery, Little Ponton. Thence along Stroxton Beck to’ 
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" again where the Stoke Park beck crosses the highroad. - This: 
Stream was followed up into the most beautiful park in the 
whole county, and on to the twelve-foot waterfall, where it has 
its rise. This powerful spring was considered the second in 
size in England, but since pipe drainage became universal it has 
i considerably i in size. Mr. Edmund and und dos! 
