TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Monthly Meeting held on Wednesday, January 29th, 1919, 

 Major S. C. Curtis, President of the Society, in the Chair. 



Miss M. Randell exhibited per Mr. B. T. Rowswell, some 

 pieces of black substance which she had found among some coal 

 delivered to her. Mr. A. Collenette pronounced the pieces to 

 be good quality bitumen, and mentioned that he had heard of 

 several similar instances in the Island. Probably the miners 

 had struck a small vein in the coal seam, not worth the trouble 

 of picking out, otherwise the bitumen was far more valuable 

 than the coal it was mixed with. 



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

 Guernsey " was read by Mr. F. L. Tanner in the absence of 

 the author. 



A paper on " Some further Words peculiar to our Dialect " 

 by the Rev. R. H. Tourtel was taken as read and passed round 

 for perusal. 



Mr. A. Collenette read his annual paper on the weather of 

 1918, which will be printed with the other two papers in the 

 Transactions. 



A vote of thanks to Mr. Collenette closed the meeting at 

 9.45. 



Monthly Meeting held on Wednesday, February 26th, 1919, 

 Major S. C. Curtis, President of the Society, in the Chair. 



The Rev. A. Bourde de la Rogerie exhibited a common- 

 place book written by a Blanche of St. Martin's about the end 

 of the 18th Century. 



Mr. A. Collenette exhibited a circular stone of flat section 

 with depressions on either side, found by Dr. Kinnersly at 

 Jerbourg. 



