Martin Lister and Lincolnshire natural history : Presidential address to the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union, 1927 / [H.W. Kew].

  • Harry Wallis Kew
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[1927]
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Credit: Martin Lister and Lincolnshire natural history : Presidential address to the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union, 1927 / [H.W. Kew]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and in the mouth of the Humber. [Natica catena], io. ‘Trochus albidus, maculis rubentibus distinctus, 6 mini¬ mum spirarumk On the Lincolnshire coast, &c., and in Humber mouth. [Trochus zizyphinus]. Shell-stones. it. ‘ Belemnites minimus, fere cujusdam succini instar & pel- lucidus & coloratus ; quibusdam Lapis Lyncurius dictus ’. In all the Cliffs as you ascend the Yorkshire and Lincoln¬ shire Wolds for about too miles as at Speeton, Londes- borough, Caistor, Tetford and Cawkwell. [Belemnites mini¬ mus Lister of most authors, B. Listen Mant. The abun¬ dant fossil of the Red Chalk, along the outcrop of wjiich Lister found it]. 12. * Conchites anomius rugosus, rostro subtereti & insigniter adunco donatus’. In Yorkshire and about Burton Stather in this county. [Gryphaea incuvva. Abundant in the Lower Lias about Burton Stather, as elsewhere]. 13. ‘ Conchites anomius, rostro prominulo, & veluti pertuso donatus ’, and 14. ‘ Pectunculites anomius trilobus’. Both about Gonerby near Grantham, &c. [Terebratula punctata and Rhynchonella tetrahedra. Both named by Mr. H. Preston, of Grantham ; abundant Brachiopoda of the Middle Lias thereabouts]. Lister’s other York books and papers would demand extended notice in any general account of his writings. Of' the books, * De Fontibus Medicatis Angliae’, 1682, mentions Santon Sands, where Ochra fossilis lutea was formerly dug. Of the smaller works, the following must be noticed : (i) ‘ A Letter of Mr. Martin Lister confirming Obser¬ vations about Musk sented Insects’ (Phil. Trans., 1671, p. 2281) mentions certain small Bees ‘ which Mr. Ray saith, smell of musk, which indeed they do in a high degree ’. They were very frequent in the Wolds in Lincolnshire, and about the latter end of April were to be found in pastures and meadows, upon the early-blown flowers of a sort of Ranunculus, and like¬ wise on the flowers of Dens Leonis, &c. [According to Kirby, Andvena parvula ‘ moscham spirat’, and that, Dr. Perkins tells me, was most likely Lister’s insect]. (ii) ‘ Another Letter written of the same Gentleman en¬ larging his former Communications about Vegetable Excres- cencies and Ichneumon Worms ’ (Phil. Trans., 1671, p. 2284)
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