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LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS IN THE 
ISLE OF AXHOLME. : 
Rev. EDWARD ADRIAN WOODRUFFE-PEACOCK, L.Th., F.L.S., F.G.S., 
Vicar of Cadney; Organising and Botanical Secretary, Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Unton. 
Tue Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union held its eighteenth meeting 
on Thursday, 14th July, in the parishes of Haxey and Epworth, 
in Div. 1., in the Isle of Axholme, or more shortly in local 
parlance, ‘The Isle.’ Those present included the Rev. Wm. 
Fowler, M.A. (Liversedge), President of the Union; Mr. F. M. 
Burton, F.L.S., F.G.S. (Gainsborough), Vice-President ; Rev. 
W. H. Daubney (Leasingham) ; Dr. Lowe and Mr. J. S. Sneath 
(Lincoln); Rev. A. Thornley (South Leverton); Rev. J. Conway 
Walter (Langton); Mr. B. Crow and Mr. T. Gelsthorp (Louth) ; 
Mr. P. W. Gent (Misterton); Rev. J. Gurnhill (East Stockwith) ; 
Rev. Canon J. T. Fowler (Winterton) ; and the Rev. E. Adrian 
Woodruffe-Peacock (Cadney) and Mr. R. W. Goulding (Louth), 
hon. secs. Mr. W. Lewington (of Market Rasen) arrived later 
in the day. The party had the advantage of being accompanied 
by two isle-men in the persons of Mr. Wm. Standring and 
Mr. Samuel Hudson, both of Epworth. The latter is a veteran 
naturalist who for many years has been a close student of the 
ornithology, entomology and botany of the region surrounding 
what he called the ‘sacred city’ of Epworth, and whose 
researches are valued by men of such eminence as Professor 
Newton, Mr. Gilbert Baker, and the president of the L.N.U. 
Mr. Standring placed his intimate topographical knowledge of 
the Isle of Axholme at the service of Mr. Burton, to whom had 
been entrusted the duty of making arrangements with regard to 
route, etc. These arrangements were in every way satisfactory, 
and materially contributed to the success of the meeting. 
Detraining at Haxey Station the visitors were conveyed by 
drag through Craise Lound and Westwoodside. The first halt 
was made in Westwoodside lane, where some rough glebe land 
appurtenant to Haxey Vicarage was examined. It was heathy 
in character, and produced an abundance of plants usually 
associated with such a locality. ‘The drive being resumed, the 
party proceeded in the direction of Haxey turbary down the 
Greenholme lane, a long sandy lane which yielded several good 
things, the principal being the now rare Afpera spica-ventt, which 
I believe is only to be found in The Isle now, though there it 
November 1 1898. 
