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LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS AT 

 LINWOOD WARREN. 



Rev. EDWARD ADRIAN WOODRUFFE-PEACOCK. L.Th., F.L.S., F.G.S., 

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



Members of the Grimsby Natural History Society and of the 

 Louth Antiquarian and Naturalists' Society visited Linwood 

 Warren on Whit Monday, 4th June, leave of access having 

 been kindly granted by Col. Conway-Gordon. Amongst those 

 present were Mr. R. W. Goulding, of Louth ; Mr. A. Smith, of 

 Grimsby ; Mr. J. S. Sneath, of Lincoln ; the Rev. E. Adrian 

 Woodruffe-Peacock, of Cadney; Mr. Max Peacock, of Bottesford. 

 Messrs. J. J. Baldwin Young-, F.L.S., M.B.O.U., of Sheffield, 

 and W. Lewington, of Market Rasen, were also out, but did not 

 join the main party. 



Several branches of natural history received careful attention, 

 botany, zoology, and entomology especially. The insect-men 

 certainly experienced two of the principal gratifications that 

 may possibly fall to their lot when they are investigating ground 

 with which they are only partially familiar, inasmuch as (1) they 

 found old friends in their accustomed habitats, and (2) they saw 

 several comparatively rare and local insects for the first time. 

 Some of them who no longer continue to collect specimens felt 

 something of their old excitement when they saw their comrades 

 capturing species which they themselves had never seen in their 

 collecting days. They remembered how Charles Darwin, after 

 a cessation of some twenty-five years, felt ' like an old war- 

 horse at the sound of the trumpet,' when he read about the 

 capture of rare beetles, and, like him, they ' boiled with old 

 ardour,' and almost longed 'to begin collecting again.' 



The following is a summary of the reports sent in :— 



The botanists were a strong party, and Linwood is the home 

 of many well-known local species, which have been recorded in 

 this journal over and over again. Scilla nutans, Convallaria, 

 Menyanthes, Genista anglica, Lamium Galeobdolon, Pan's, Hab- 

 enaria chlorantha, and Ornithopus perpusillus amongst others 

 made a brave show. 



Everyone seemed to take an interest in zoology. A Fox, 

 Which had destroyed a Partridge and her nest of eggs, was 

 noted, as wore also the Rabbit and Hedgehog, with Common 

 Lizards, a Grass Snake, and the male and female of the Great 

 Warty Newt. 



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