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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    tells us something of 1 the green Caterpillar so common in our Lincoinshire-heaths ’. They appeared equivalent to the Indian silkworm ; their Thecas were as large, many of them, as a man’s thumb, &c. [Evidently Saturnia pavonia, Emperor Moth]. (iii) ‘ A Letter of Mr. Martin Lister concerning the first part of his Tables of Snails together with some Quaeres relating to those Insects ’ (Phil. Trans., 1674, p. 96) mentions * Buccinum parvum sive Trochilus sylvaticus agri Lincoln- iensis ’, i.e. Hyalinia fulva, which was thus early associated with this county. (iv) ‘A Letter from Dr. Lister containing an Account of several curious Observations about Antiquities ’ (Phil. Trans., 1682, p. 87) describes the remains of a Roman pottery on Santon Sands, where there were what were regarded as ruins of furnaces, many pieces of pots and urns of different shapes, and much slag and cinders ; this pottery was within a mile of the Roman Road and had taken up much ground. In letters to Ray, 1670-74 (Derham, pp. 73, sqq.), Lister wrote: (1) of Willughby’s Bees [Megachilc] that lodged them¬ selves in old willows and there made cases of cut leaves ; he found in his Adversaria that he had formerly dug out of the ground at Burwell man}' just such-like cases [Megachile or Colletes ?] made of thin wafers or membranes. In the same place he had frequently met with little hollow balls, of the shape and size of pistol-bullets, of yellow wax [Spathegaster or 7 rigonaspis galls ?], wherein one small maggot seemed to find both housing and food; (2) of the fish ‘ they call Bret in Lincolnshire ' [His Bret was undoubtedly the Turbot, though Mr. F. Kime, of Boston, remembers having heard the Brill so named. Cp. Merret’s ‘ Observables in Lincolnshire 4 Here are Turhuts called Buts’]; and (3) of his Tables of Snails: ‘Tistrue, the second [Cyclostoma elegans] is that you and I found about Montpellier; but I have found it in divers places in England since my return, in Kent, in Lincolnshire, &c.’ [He found it in the Burwell Woods, as already stated]. vii. Before the end of 1683, Lister removed to Westminster,
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