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appellation, the lectiirer confined his remarks to the one group 

 more especially entitled to this distinctive name, viz. : Sea 

 Anemones. On the shores of Guernsey anemones abound, 

 and in great variety, but it is perhaps in the Gouliot Caves 

 of Sark that they are to be seen in their greatest beauty. 

 The structure of these lowly animals is simple in the extreme : 

 a mei'e sac surrounded by a croAvn of tentacles containing a 

 battery of stinging-cells which have the power of paralysing 

 their prey, and thus bringing within reach many quick-moving 

 creatures which form their food, and which they have no 

 means of pursuing. Many of the more striking and beautiful 

 sea-anemones were descril)e(l and illustrated by coloured slides 

 on the screen. 



Month 1 1/ Meetiiuj held on Fchraarij 20fh, 1907, Rec. W. C. 

 Poineij, \^ice-PresUlent, in the eJiciir. 



Mr. F. L. Tanner announced the residt of the Society's 

 Soiree held on the 5th instant. In spite of the severity of 

 the weather as Avell as many counter-attractions the sum of 

 £4 10s. 6fl. had been cleared and Avould be added to the 

 Society's funds. Cordial thanks were voted to Mr. Tanner 

 who had arranged the evening's entertainment, and to the 

 ladies and gentlemen who had provided the music. 



Mr. Henry E. Marquand, editor of the Guernsey Star, 

 i-ead the paper on " Old Sarnia : its Customs, ^lerry-makings 

 and Superstitions,*' which is printed in the following pages of 

 tliese Trroisactions. 



The following account of the recent display of Aurora 

 borealis, written by Mr. B. T. Kowswell, was read by the 

 Hon. Secretary ; — 



"A fine aurora was seen here on Saturday, the 9th 

 February, between ten and eleven o'clock at night. This 

 beautiful phenomenon is so seldom witnessed in this island 

 that its occurrence deserves more than a bare mention. In 

 recent years we do not appear to have been favoiu'ed Avith a 

 display of the Northern Light, or at any rate none has been 

 chronicled. The last authentic occasion J believe to have 

 been in September, 1898, Avhen the phenomenon was observed 

 both here and at Jersey on the 9th of that month, and from 

 notes made at the time it must have looked very beautiful. 



'' Last Saturday night's aurora apjjears to have been 

 visible for several hours ; as early at 8.30 it was attracting 

 attention, though most of the time nothing more than a steady 

 bright milk-white light was to be seen in the northern sky. 



