MEETINGS. 175 



Mr. E. D. Marquand then read a paper on the "Mosses, 

 Hepaticae and Lichens of Guernsey," to which he added some 

 remarks on the best methods of collecting and preserving 

 these plants and the most serviceable books to be used in 

 studying them. Mr. Marquand's paper and list of species will 

 be found in the following pages. 



Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society, held on October 36th, 

 1892, Mr. E. D. Marquand in the chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting having been duly read 

 and signed, Mr. W. A. Luff read a paper on the " Cicadidse of 

 Guernsey," with lists of species, and also a list of the additions 

 made during the year to the Hemiptera Heteroptera of the 

 island. These papers (which are printed in these pages) were 

 illustrated by Mr. Luff's collections of these insects, neatly 

 mounted and carefully classified. 



Mr. W. Sharp, Hon. Secretary of the Society, then read 

 the following Keport of the Council : — 



" The Society has this year completed the first decade of 

 its existence, which closes with the year of good and useful 

 work. The in-door meetings have been on the whole well 

 attended, and have been characterised by a more active 

 interest on the part of the members than those of previous 

 years. The original papers read, though small in number, are 

 extremely valuable, containing as they do the result of much 

 careful research as well as useful information, for the guidance 

 of future workers in the same field. The weekly out-door 

 meetings during the summer months, inaugurated last year, 

 have been carried on this season on a more extended scale. 

 We have gone further afield, and in addition to members, 

 large numbers of friends and visitors to the island have 

 availed themselves of the advantages thus offered, so that the 

 issue of a printed programme of these excursions has proved 

 a decided success. Accounts of these excursions have been 

 published each week in one or more of the local papers, and 

 thus the Society and its work has been constantly kept before 

 the notice of the public. The districts visited were Bordeaux, 

 Talbot's Valley, Bee du Nez, Bon Repos, Richmond, Fort 

 Doyle, Grantez Mill, Ivy Castle, Moie Point, Perelle Bay, Yale 

 Mill, Grande Rocque, St. Martin's Point, and Grande Mare. 

 Abundant work still remains to be done in these as well as 

 other parts of the island. The work of the Geological, Botani- 

 cal and Entomological sections will be detailed in their 

 respective reports presently to be read to you. We are 



