254 FORMATION OF A LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION. 
of natural history, and what a fair prospect was opened out for the 
formation of a Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union, for the county of 
Lincoln had peculiar features of its own which could not be excelled, 
if rE by any other county. 
r. F. M. Burton, F.L.S., F.G.S., then formally proposed that 
a rn Naturalists’ om be fritid) and Rev. Canon W. W. 
Fowler, M.A., seconded, and Rev. E. A. W. Peacock supported, the 
proposition. This was unanimously carried, and Mr. John Cordeaux, 
M.B.O.U., then proposed that the Lincolnshire members present 
form a provisional committee with Mr. Walter F. Baker as secretary. 
Mr. F. Arnold Lees seconded, and the motion was carried. 
The Rev. Canon W. W. Fowles; M. Ay ach — then proposed that 
a hearty vote of thanks b the originators of this excursion, 
Mr. Walter F. Baker, Mr. Joseph Coe, and ‘Mr. J. Larder, and this 
was duly seconded and carried. A vote of thanks to the chairman 
concluded the meeting. 
It had been intended to hold sectional meetings, but time being 
so short it was decided to have the reports sent in in writing, and the 
following have been received :— 
For the geologists, Mr. F. M. Burton, F.L.S., F.G.S., reports as 
follows :—Although, in the way of investigation, the locality chosen 
for the excursion could not, from its very nature, be favourable to 
Geology—the whole of the land for miles round being covered by — 
peat and silt—yet a flat sandy shore, like that at Mablethorpe, has 
many points of interest for the geological student, as well as for 
the biologist and botanist. The boulder clay of the great glacial 
age lies under these alluvial deposits, and, in a disused brick-pit at 
Theddlethorpe St. Helens, where this clay until lately was worked 
—and in which a good sized boulder was lying—part of an old 
Roman Bank is exposed. [See note appended to this report kindly 
communicated by the Rev. C. W. Whistler, the Vicar of West 
Theddlethorpe. ] The chief interest attaching to this district, so far 
as geology is concerned, lies in the question—What comes under 
_ the boulder clay?—and good work may be done by any geologist, = 
_ or naturalist, who will take the trouble to ett aie’ any wells, or 
rics with a view to its 
Only recently, at a meeting of the Ceisloatial Society of London, 
on the 24th May last, in a paper on some recent borings at Alford, 
egness, Mr. Jukes Browne disclosed the existence 
eath rift ; and a good field for discovery, by similar 
ons, lie “ | to _— on the a = are ae cee 
-anticlinal axis, bringing up Lower Cretaceous 
