1917.] REPORTS. 11 



OBITUARY. 



The Society has this year suffered severely through 

 death. Two original members, Mr. J. Linwood Pitts and 

 Mr. T. M. Bichard, and an early member, Mr. J. J. Carey, 

 have passed away. Mr. Pitts will be long remembered as the 

 scholarly figure in black with the large sombrero whose asso- 

 ciation as Managing Director of the Cruille-Alles Library 

 with the Society has been of such benefit to it. He will also 

 be remembered for his services to Guernsey as an early 

 explorer in the fields of Folklore, and his well-known books on 

 Guernsey Folklore and Patois are still standard publications. 

 Mr. Bichard had not been of late years active. Mr. J. J. 

 Carey will be remembered in the last decade of the nineteenth 

 century as an excellent worker in the field of archeology and 

 as the first Secretary of the Archaeological Section, lately 

 rev wed. 



MEMBERSHIP. 



The membership of the Society is now 110. 



Thanks are due as in former years to the Management of 

 the Guille-Alles Library for their continued interest in the 

 affairs of the Society, for the loan of the meeting room and 

 the use of the lantern, and the Council take this opportunity 

 of expressing to the Management their sense of the loss which 

 the Library has sustained in the death of Mr. Pitts. 



LIBRARY. 



The Library has received the following additions by 

 exchange and otherwise : — 



From the Torquay Natural History Society : — 



Journal of the Society, Vol. 2, No. 3 (1917), and 

 No. 4 (1918). 



From the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, U.S.A. : — 

 Annual Report for 1916. 



From the Library of Congress, Washington, U.S.A. : — 

 Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress, 1916. 



From the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia : — 



Proceedings, Vol. LXVIIL, Part 3, May-Dec, 1916. 

 Vol. LXIX., Part 1, Jan.-March, 1917. 

 Vol. LXIX., Part 2, April-Sept., 1917. 



