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LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS AT REVESBY. 



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

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



The 31st Field Meeting of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union 

 was held at Revesby, the late Sir Joseph Banks' country seat, 

 on 4th July 1901. It was under the leadership of Rev J. 

 Conway Walter, a former President of the L.N.U. The 

 weather, unexpectedly after recent rain, proved to be brilliant 

 in the extreme, far too hot for 4 the great exertion ' required for 

 'proper field work.' A party of over 30 left Horncastle Station 

 before 10 a.m., gaining- additions in its progress through 

 Scrivelsby and Moorby. At Revesby the work of the day was 

 done. The members were conducted by the gamekeeper through 

 the woods and by the Boston reservoir to make their researches 

 in natural history. What with the great heat and the shortness 

 of the time that could be allowed before the whole party 

 assembled at the Abbey at 3 p.m., little could be done. The 

 Hon. Mrs. Edward Stanhope then entertained the Union at 

 a most sumptuous repast, and the choice art treasures of the 

 place were viewed, which are so rich in past associations with 

 the good work of Sir Joseph Banks. 



Mr. F. M. Burton, F.G.S., reports on the regolith as 

 follows : — This excursion in a geological sense, so far as field 

 work is concerned, was not a success. Time and opportunity 

 were both wanting for studying the strata we passed over. Had 

 the former been available, it is only through the aid of pits and 

 other excavations that we should have been able to get at the 

 rocks beneath ; for the whole of the land between Horncastle 

 and Revesby, over which we drove, is covered by ' chalky 

 Boulder Clay,' and we only got rid of it as we approached the 

 village of Revesby, which lies on a bed of old river gravels. 



Revesby Abbey, where we were so hospitably entertained, 

 lies a little to the north of these gravel beds, and is on the 

 ' Boulder Clay ' ; but to the south of the gravels, below Revesby 

 Gate, the Kimmeridge Clay is exposed. This latter deposit 

 forms an oblong-shaped outlier of about two and a half miles in 

 length from east to west, and about a mile in the widest part 

 from north to south. There is another exposure of the same 

 formation on the north of the gravel beds, which runs in a very 

 uneven form in a northerly direction, past East Kirkby, up to 

 and beyond Bolingbroke, where it skirts the Spilsby Sandstone. 



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