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meetings having been prohibited owing to the prevailing 

 epidemic of influenza. 



Miss Bigge was elected a member of the Society. 



The Council's Report was read by Major S. Carey Curtis, 

 the Secretary. 



The reports of the various Sections were then read, that 

 of the Archasological Section by Major S. Carey Curtis, that 

 of the Folklore Section by Miss E. F. Carey, the Geological 

 Section's report by Mr. Adolphus Collenette, and the Ornitho- 

 logical Section's report, written by Mr. B. T. Rowswell, was 

 read by Mr. C. G. De La Mare. There were no reports from 

 the Botanical, Entomological or Marine Zoology Sections. 



The Treasurer read the Financial Report, showing an 

 adverse Balance of £2 17s. 4Jd. Two sets of Transactions 

 had been published during the year, one of them of an excep- 

 tional size, and this, with the great increase in the cost of 

 printing, had absorbed the large balance in hand at the end of 

 1917 as well as the subscriptions for 1918. 



The elections then took place. The outgoing President 

 nominated Major S. Carey Curtis as his successor, and this 

 was adopted by the Meeting. The Council was re-elected 

 en bloc, Mr. G. F. Alles being chosen to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the death of Rev. F. E. Lowe. No name was 

 submitted for the post of Secretary, and the election was 

 deferred, Major Curtis consenting to continue acting in that 

 capacity for the present. The Treasurer was re-elected. 



The outgoing President then gave his retiring address, in 

 which he described the circumstances which led to the Privy 

 Council becoming the Appeal Court for this island. 



Monthly Meeting held January 29th, 1919, Major S. Carey 

 Curtis, President of the Society, in the Chair. 



Miss M. Randell exhibited some pieces of a black 

 substance which she had found among the coal delivered to 

 her. Mr. Collenette pronounced them to be bitumen of good 

 quality, and stated he had heard of several instances of 

 similar finds recently. He thought the miners may have 

 struck a small vein of this substance in the coal seam, but had 

 not thought it worth sorting from the coal, though of 

 considerably more value 



A paper by Mr. Eric Sharp on the " Sponges of 

 Guernsey was read by Mr. F. L. Tanner on behalf of the 

 author. 



