242 Peacock: Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union at Grantham, 
Turnor magnificently entertained the members at the Hall for 
luncheon. From Stoke Park the party drove to Woolsthorpe 
Manor House, the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton. The return 
journey was along Ermine Street, and down the valley—a storm 
valley—to Little Ponton and Grantham, noting the geological 
features of the route. The usual high tea and reports followed. 
Mr. H. Preston’s, F.G.S., paper is given elsewhere, so I go 
n to the other sections. 
No one was able to give me a list of the mammals of this 
sel chbiadshoba, But Mr. W. H. Kirby, B.A., of Swansea, supplied 
a good list of birds, from neni I extracted the following as 
I ran it into the Union Reg :—Tree Creeper, Great Crested 
Grebe, Hawfinch, Rcuieetie Ratha Tawny Owl, Redstart, 
Red-backed Shrike, Marsh Tit Grey and Yellow Wagtails, 
Woodlark, Wryneck, Bittern, Dipper, Great Northern Diver, 
lack-throated Diver, Greenshank, Osprey, Water Rail, Twite, 
and Great and Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers. 
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Nest and Eggs of Waterhen (Gallinula chloropus). 
On the Witham near Little Ponton, from a photograph taken by Mr, Henry Preston, F.G.S. 
At Little Ponton a Waterhen’s nest was viewed and photo- 
graphed. It was built in the water some distance from the 
bank with no protection whatever, the bottom of the nest being 
N atu ralist, 
