LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS AT 
WOODHALL SPA. 
THE second meeting of the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union was held 
at Woodhall Spa on Monday, August 7th. The district for investi- 
gation held out special attractions for almost all classes of naturalists, 
Owing to its very diversified nature. A fertile, agricultural district, 
yet abounding in large woods, waste moorlands, and the drains and 
marshy lands, so typical of Lincolnshire scenery, it well repaid the 
trouble of investigation. Considering that this was only the second 
meeting of the Union, the attendance was very good, and had it not 
‘been a Bank Holiday would doubtless have been much larger. 
Permission had been kindly granted by Mrs. Hotchkin, of Manor 
House, Kirkstead, and the Rev. J. Conway Walter, to the members 
of the Union to pass over their estates. 
Owing to the Bank Holiday ‘tripping element,’ most of the 
trains were late, and instead of a start being made at 10.20 a.m., as 
Originally arranged, it was nearly 11.30 before all got off. Leaving 
Kirkstead Station, the party, under the leadership of the Rev. J. 
Conway Walter, proceeded by a cross-country route to Woodhall 
Spa, then passing through the Spa grounds, along the beck side, past 
Mrs. Hotchkin’s wood to ‘Tower O’ Moor,’ and the Ostler plantations. 
Several of the members, including the conchologists and coleopterists 
_ (who generally form the rear-guard of a party of naturalists) did not — 
go over the whole of the route, but stopped nearer to Woodhall, and 
from their accounts seem to be well satisfied that they did so. 
- By 4 o'clock most of the members had returned to the 
e Eagle Hotel, at Woodhall, where, after doing ample justice to 
a ease tea, the sectional meetings w were held, followed a substantial at 
a0 hich M Pk Peron pees oe 
oe _ vote “of thanks to the landowners and also to the Gaya - ee 
: "Walter for 1 leading the y g been n passed, th oe 
a were then given. ee 
 . , For the Geological | Season, Mr F M. Burton, F is. se PGS, i its a 
_ President, reported as follows :— oe 
_. The Kimmeridge Clay, on whith Woodhall ‘Spa stands, covers 
a large area of that district of the county of Lincoln. It is eight to 
nine miles wide in parts, and attains a thickness of about 600 feet. 
_ This bed is the representative of the upper bn ssage in the county, ie 
_ there being no traces in it of tl nd sand and limestone which __ 
