TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Monthly Meeting held on November 9th, 1892, Mr. E. D. 

 Marquand, President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting having been read and 

 confirmed, Mr. J. W. Morgan, of La Croute, St. Martin's, was 

 unanimously elected a member of the Society. The subject 

 of birds being introduced, Mr. Derrick mentioned that he had 

 seen about a dozen swallows at Le Bourg, St. Andrew's, on 

 October 29th. The President said he had seen during the 

 past week a pair of Golden-crested Wrens, and a Goat-sucker, 

 the latter being a very rare bird here. Mr. Z. Kobert 

 presented to the Society Vol. III. of Dr. MacCulloch's 

 " Description of the Western Islands of Scotland and Isle of 

 Man," for which he was cordially thanked. The President 

 stated that he had lately received from Mr. W. F. Miller, of 

 Sidcot, North Somerset, a list of plants observed by him in 

 Sark during a fortnight's stay there last August. It comprised 

 between 60 and 70 additions to Babington's list, and about 

 30 species hitherto unrecorded for Sark. The total number 

 of Flowering Plants recorded for Sark now amounted to some 

 320 or 330 species, a number which the President did not 

 consider by any means exhaustive. About a dozen species 

 occur in Sark which are unknown in Guernsey. Mr. Derrick 

 read a paper on "Guernsey Clays," which will be found 

 printed in full on page 212 of these Transactions. 



Monthly Meeting held on December lJ^th, 1892, Mr. E. D. 

 Marquand, President, in the chair. 

 After disposing of the formal business of the evening, 

 Mr. Cecil Carey was unanimously elected a member of the 

 Society. Mr. Luff read from the Field Club an interesting 

 paper on " The Insusceptibility of some individuals to the 

 Stings of Wasps, Bees and Nettles," detailing particular cases 

 in Jersey and Herm in which persons had been repeatedly 

 stung on the neck, arms and hands by scores of wasps, and 

 yet experienced no pain or inconvenience whatever ; and an 

 instance where children had been known to be incapable of 

 feeling nettle stings. Mr. Z. Robert entertained the meeting 



