96 LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION AT LINCOLN. 



A number of birds, very admirably set up, had been most 

 generously given by Mr. Fieldsend, the Hon. Curator of the Union. 

 Mr. Fieldsend is a true artist and student of nature, and the setting 

 up of his cases is not the mere skill of the bird-stuffer, but he aims 

 at the example set by the authorities at South Kensington, not only 

 to present his subjects in correct living attitudes, but to show them 

 as they appear, and as they frequently conceal themselves, in their 

 native haunts ; and it is only just praise to say that he succeeds in 

 what he is aiming at. Mr. William Emerson, of Lincoln, gave an 

 excellent collection of birds' eggs taken in the county, containing 

 many rare species, and some of them extinct. Canon Fowler lent 

 cases of British Butterflies and Land Shells. 



Mr. J. H. Cooke, now, fortunately for the Union and Museum, 

 located in Lincoln, in connection with the Science and Art Classes 

 of the county, lent some of his Maltese fossils, which are of the 

 highest interest, and which have already made his name known 

 wherever geology and palaeontology are cared for. The Mechanics 

 Institute very kindly lent some valuable Roman pottery, and also 

 the cases in which many of the objects were displayed. British 

 insects and fossils came from the Rev. W. \Y. Cooper, of West 

 Rasen, Miss Yenables, and Mr. Jarvis Rainey, of Spilsby ; and a 

 large ammonite from the chalk, near Barton-on-Humber, from Mr. Ball* 



At four o'clock the Annual Meeting of the Union was held at 

 the Saracen's Head. The President, who took the chair, read 

 a short report as to the meetings during the year; alluding 

 especially to the one on the 3rd June at Brigg, when the Yorkshire 

 naturalists met those of Lincolnshire, and a joint meeting of the 

 two Unions was held. He alluded also to the successful efforts that 

 had been made, during the past year, in obtaining protection for 

 wild birds on the Lincolnshire coast, through the aid of the Lindsey 



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The Hon. Secretary then read his report, showing a satisfactory 

 increase in the number of members ; and, after a few words from 

 Mr* Sneath, the auditor, respecting the account-, which necessarily 

 could not be gone into at that meeting, the Rev. Canon Fowler, 



Secretary 



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elected 



ig vear. The Rev. 



E. A. Woodruffe- Peacock was re-elected Hon. Secretary. The 



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and the retiring President then delivered his address, 'The Story oi 



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this very successful meeting came to an end. — F. M. Burton. 



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