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of such formations either in Guernsey or Sark. Mr. Derrick 

 said stahigmitic iticnistations had been found at Bon Repos 

 and near Moulin Huet, but no stalactites of this kind had 

 been seen before. Mr. vSharj) said he luid once seen artificial 

 stalactites hanging from the vaulted roof of the cellar of an 

 old house being demolished in Berthelot Street, and there 

 were stalagmitic deposits on the Hoor. The present find was 

 an extremely interesting one, as the specimens were so large. 



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

 Hepaticai of Jethou," with list of species. This is ])rinted in 

 the present number of the Transactioiiii. 



Mr. J. S. Hocart read a paper on " Guernsey Weather 

 Lore," which is printed in the following pages. The discus- 

 sion of this paper brought forward once more the question of 

 the preservation of examples of the Guernsey dialect, and 

 arrangements were made to ascertain the necessary cost of 

 the apparatus required, and the methods to be adopted. 



The President exhibited, and presented to the Museum a 

 Chough's Qorg taken this year in Sark, and read some interest- 

 ing notes by an old Elizabethan on the nesting of seabirds 

 in that islau'^. The main portion of these notes will be found 

 in this year's Report of the Ornithological Section. 



A large and remarkable insect, the Praying Mantis 

 (Manti.'i relifjiosa) was exhibited by Mr. W. A. Luff. It w^as 

 captured alive in Dr. Carey's garden, Grange Road, and 

 the question was how it got there. 



Monthly Meeting held on November 14th, 1906, Rev. W. C. 

 Penney, President, in the chair. 



Miss Clara Randell was unanimously elected a member of 

 the Society. 



Mr. E. D. Marquand, A.L.S., read a paper on the 

 " Zoophytes of Guernsey," illustrated by sketches and dia- 

 grams, and a collection of specimens. This paper is printed in 

 the following pages. 



Mr. W. A. Luff I'ead a paper on the " Insects of Sark," 

 thereby completing the record of the insect-fauna of all the 

 Sarnian Islands. It will be found further on in these 

 Transactions. 



Mr. Joseph Sinel, of Jersey, contributed a paper on the 

 '* Crustacea of the Channel Islands," a subject on which he is 

 well qualified to speak, after some forty years' work at marine 

 zoology. This paper is published in the following pages. 



