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LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS AT BOURNE* 



Rev. E. ADRIAN WOODRUFFE-PE ACOCK, L.Th., F.L.S., F.G.S., 



Vicar of Cadney\ Organising and Botanical Secretary , Lincolnshire Naturalists Union; 



Curator of the Lincolnshire County Herbarium \ 



In lovely weather the eleventh field meeting of the Union was 

 held on August 3rd, at Bourne, South Lincolnshire, in the centre of 

 Natural History Division 16. Considering the month, a holiday 

 time for all who can get away, there was a good attendance of 

 members. Amongst those present were Mr. F. M. Burton, F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., of Gainsborough ; Mr. J. J. Davies and Mr. Wherry, of 

 Bourne; Mr. J. S. Sneath, Mr. A. Fieldsend, and Mr. Gregson, 

 of Lincoln ; Rev. E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, of Cadney ; 

 Rev. H. A. Barker, of Wrangle ; Mr. and Miss Stow, of Caythorpe ; 

 Mr. Jackson, of Fleet; Rev. W. H. Daubney, of Leasingham ; 

 Mr. J. W. Chandler, of Parson Drove; Mr. J. Lane-Claypon and 

 the Misses Lane-Claypon, of Tytton Hall ; Rev. C M. A. Baines, of 

 Carlby ; Rev. L. N. Knox, of Creeton ; the Dean of Stamford and 

 Miss Howard, of Market Deeping; Mr. B. Crow, Mr. T. Gelsthorp, 

 and Mr. R. W. Goulding, of Louth. 



In the forenoon the members visited places of archaeological and 

 general interest in the town — which was once a Roman station, and 

 the last refuge of Hereward the Wake, when he was driven from the 

 Isle of Ely by William the Conqueror — botanising as they went. The 

 old castle and earthworks and Peter's Pool or the Well Head proved 

 particularly interesting. The latter is the source of the Bourne Eau, 

 which, within half a mile, has sufficient force to drive three mills* 



About noon the scientific proceedings proper commenced, two 



parties going out in drags for the purpose of examining the 



Scottlethorpe and Grimsthorpe Quarries and the flora of the old 

 Bytham and Edenham Railway cutting. En route Mr, J. J. Davies, 

 who acted as local guide, gave the following description of the 

 geology of the Bourne district, which had been prepared by Mr. J. H. 

 Cooke, B.Sc, F.L.S., F.G.S., of Lincoln, who was unavoidably 

 absent : — Bourne is situated at the foot of the eastern slopes of the 

 great Lincolnshire escarpment of the Lincolnshire Oolite, and on 

 the very verge of the Fenland. The town of Bourne may be 

 divided geologically into three parts, namely, the northern suburbs, 

 which are built on the Cornbrash ; the eastern suburbs, on the Post- 

 glacial deposits of the Fenland; and the central portion, on the 

 Oxford Clay, The Cornbrash, a shallow-sea deposit, the uppermost 

 member of the Lower Oolite, consists of a series of coarse, shelly 

 limestones and sands. It is so called because it readily disintegrates 



Oct. 1S9* 



