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LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS AT 



GREAT COTES. 



Rev. E. ADRIAN WOODRUF FE-PK ACOCK, L.Th., F.L.S., F.G.S., 



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



Curator of t fie Lincolnshire County Herbarium, 



At the invitation of Mr. John Cordeaux, M.B.O.U., who was the 

 first president of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union, a large number 

 of its members mustered for their twelth field meeting at Great Cotes, 

 in Division 4, on Tuesday, September 8th. Among the visitors were 

 Mr. F. M. Burton, F.L.S., F.G.S., of Gainsborough ; Rev. W. Tuck- 

 well, of Waltham; Rev. W. Fowler, M.A., of Liversedgej Rev. A. 

 Thornley, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., of Leverton ; Mr. J. H. Cooke, B.Sc., 

 F.L.S., F.G.S., Mr. A. Fieldsend, Mr. J. S. Sneath, and Mr. G. A. 

 Grierson, F.L.S., of Lincoln ; Mr. B. Crow, Mr. T. Gelsthorp, and 

 Mr. J. Mawer, of Louth; Miss Lane-Claypon, of Tytton Hall; 

 Rev. C. Wilkinson, of Toft Newton ; Rev. Canon Staffurth, of 

 Frieston; Rev. W. Wyatt, of Broughton : Mr. J. O. Nicholson, of 

 Staniwells ; Mr. J. Jarvis Rainey, of Spilsby : Mr. C. L. Hett, of 

 B «gg J Mr. S. Pegler, of Retford ; Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh, of 

 Grainsby Hall ; Rev. C. A. Alington, of Swinhope ; Rev. J. P. 

 Young, Mr. G. Parker and Mr. S. J. North, of Grimsby ; Rev. W. 

 H. Daubney, of Leasingham ; Rev. J. E. Wallis-Loft, of Swallow ; 

 Rev. J. S. H. McSwiney, of Barnoldby-le-Beck ; and the Secretaries, 

 the Rev. E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, F.L.S., F.G.S., of Cadney, 

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



For once, during a month of rain, the weather was fine, though 

 dull, the whole day, and the members enjoyed their exploration 

 thoroughly. With the object of investigating a large area of ground 

 two parties were formed — one which, under the guidance of 

 Mr. Peacock, went by the old Fleet drain to the Humber Bank; the 

 other was led by Mr. Cordeaux, and proceeded mostly by the side 

 of the stream, called the Freshney, which runs into Grimsby Docks, 

 through Great Cotes, Little Cotes and Aylesby, chiefly over pastures 

 and boggy ground. 



Botany was the branch of science with which both parties 

 chiefly concerned themselves, but the experts in each branch of 

 Natural History gave close attention to all things in their path 

 which appertained to their particular work. Owing chiefly to the 

 lateness of the season, and the limited time allowed for research, 

 the day was not as fruitful in * finds 5 worthy of record as might 

 have been expected, but the rambles were abundantly interesting 

 ^oth from the scientists' and pleasure-seekers' point of view. The 



