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LINCOLNSHIRE NAT URALISTS AT HARTSHOLME. 
- Rev. EDWARD ADRIAN WOODRUFFE-PEACOCK, L.Th., F.L.S., 
Vicar of Cadney; Organising and Botanical Secretary, Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union : 
Curator of the Lincolnshire (iain Herbarium 
Ox the 15th of September, 1898, there was a joint meeting of the 3 
Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union and the Lincolnshire Scientific 
Society at Hartsholme Hall, near Lincoln, the seat of Mr. 
Nathaniel’ Clayton-Cockburn, J.P., situate in the parish of 
Skellingthorpe, in Div. 13. This was the twentieth meeting of 
the Union for field-work. A lovely summer day made every- 
thing pass off very well indeed, under careful supervision of the 
two presidents, Rev. W. Fowler, M.A., and Dr. G. M. Lowe, 
M.C. The members of the Societies turned out very well, 
considering the lateness of the season. Amongst others present 
were the Revs. A. Thornley, A. Hunt, J. Conway Walter, 
J. Gurnhill, E. R. Walker, and E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock, 
Messrs. F. H. Harrison, A. Fieldsend, J. Cordeaux, G. A. 
Grierson, W. Scorer, W. Lewington, M. Peacock, Musham, 
Greaves, and Dr. Cassall; also an unusually large number of ~: 
ladies, amongst whom were the Misses Stowe and Miss Harrison. 
The geology of this neighbourhood is not very interesting, 
except to the specialist in river-drift deposits. The rock, which 
consists of Lower Lias, is almost wholly covered with the 
ancient gravels and sands of the river Trent, deposited while 
it still flowed through the Lincoln Gap, or the much more 
recent gravels and sands the same river accumulated while 
passing off some of its flood waters along its old course after 
its present bed had been finally taken. The pond at Hartsholme 
is of modern artificial construction, made by deepening the 
outfall of a natural brook now called the Prial Drain, which 
formerly emptied into the Catch Water Drain; precisely in the 
same way as the lake at Boultham, the next parish on the east, 
_has been made by the waters of modernly-named Pike Drain, 
the Swallow Beck of more ancient days, which has handed on 
its name to the hamlet close by on its bank. 
Of the Duck Pond, Mr. N. Clayton-Cockburn writes :—‘ As 
a rule, about October, 300 or 400 Mallard come here to stay till 
_ the spring, when they leave the place to nest, I suppose, only 
a very few remaining here for that purpose. 
Widgeon come, too. I have never seen any Sheld-duck, but in 
i the spring a few Pochards regularly make their appearance, but 
_ do not stay any length of time. A Goosander once arrived 
ath pt. 1899. : ; : e 
A few Teal and 
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