LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS 
AT WOODHALL SPA AND TUMBY WOODS. 
Rev. EDWARD ADRIAN WOODRUFFE-PEACOCK, L.Th., F.L.S., F.G.S., 
Vicar of Cadney; Organising and Botanical So aint Lincolushire Naturalists’ Union. 
THE nineteenth meeting of the Lincolnshire Union was held at 
Woodhall Spa for a visit to Tumby and Fulsby Woods, in 
Div. 10, on the 18th of August. As usual at the time of year 
the meeting was a small one, many members being away on 
their holidays, but the company included the President, the 
Rev. W. Fowler, Mr. F. M. Burton, F.L.S., F.G.S., Rev. S. C. 
Wood, of Great Ponton; Dr. R. T. Cassal, of Ashby; Messrs. 
B. Crow and T. Gelsthorpe, of Louth; Mr. W. Lewington, of 
Market Rasen; Dr. G. M. Lowe, President of the Lincolnshire 
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Science Society; Rev. H. Barker, of Wrangle; Messrs 
Preston, F.G.S., and W. H. Kirby, of Grantham; the Rev. J. 
Conway Walter, of Langton; Mr. H. M. Hawley and his son, 
of Tumby Lawn; Mr. J. Eardley Mason, of Lincoln; the 
Rev. F. S. Alston, of West Ashby; Mr. G. Alston Ling, and 
the Organising Secretary. 
The party drove in carriages from Woodhall Spa Station 
through Roughton and Kirkby-on-Bain parishes to Fulsby and 
Tumby Woods, where they worked all day under the guidance 
of Mr. H. M. Hawley and the Rev. J. Conway Walter. The 
usual high tea followed at the Swan Inn, Tumby. 
Mr. Henry Preston, F.G.S., said that the geologists had 
enjoyed a pleasant and easy sine the actual work of the day 
having been done by devotees of other branches of Science. 
But Tumby Wood could tell of something else besides botany, 
.4 and entomology, and black ants; it represented an interesting 
_ Section in one of the later chapters of Earth History. ne 
wood stands on a bed of ancient gravel, composed principally — 
of sub-angular fragments of flint which have been derived by 
denudation from the underlying boulder clay. Mixed with the 
flints is to be found an occasional quartzite pebble which, like 
the proverbial straw, serves to show the direction from whence 
the ancient river came which laid down these great gravel 
ds. The geological map shows that these ancient gravel beds 
extend westwards, flanking the deposits of the Witham valley 
nearly up to Lincoln. Without trespassing upon the excellent 
Paper read some time ago by our friend and Vice-President, 
‘Mr. Burton, it may be mentioned that oe westwards © 
Pe March 1899, 
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