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thanks for having drawn attention to them, for these chance 

 discoveries often prove to be something of great scientific 

 vahie. 



Mr. E. Sharp exhibited two marine animals taken by him 

 at Havelet Bay — one, a rare Sea Anemone, Halcampa 

 clirysantJielhim — the other, IJaliclystcH octoradiutns, a Unk 

 between the Jellyfishes and the Sea Anemones. Mr. Sinel 

 said the latter was not uncommon in Jersey, but although 

 undoubtedly the same species, it was a far more delicate and 

 graceful form than that which occurred in the sister island. 



Mr. J. Sinel read a paper, which is printed in full in the 

 present Transactions, upon " The Mammalia and Reptilia of 

 the Channel Islands." Some of the points raised as to the 

 relative age of the different islands were the subject of an 

 animated discussion in which several members took pai't. 

 The Chairman expressed the opinion that the flora of the 

 different islands, which varied in character, would be found to 

 throw considerable light on the lecturer's theories and 

 calculations : and therefore he hoped that when Mr. Sinel's 

 paper was printed, an evening would be set apart for the full 

 discussion of it, as the subject was one of the most interesting 

 ever brought before the attention of the members. 



Monthly Meeting held on November 18th, 1908, Mr. A. 

 Collenette, F.C.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Miss R. Corbin was unanimously elected a member of 

 the Society. 



The Hon. Secretary exhibited specimens of two plants 

 new to Sark : Sinapis nigra and S. alba, discovered by him 

 this year in that island. 



A specimen of the common mussel of extraordinary size, 

 lately presented to the Museum, was exhibited. It was the 

 so-called " Hoof-mussel " (knoAvn to conchologists as the var. 

 Gallo-prorAncialis), and was evidently of great age, being 

 covered with calcareous alga3 and other incrustations. 



Mr. Collenette reported that at Hougue Ricard, Vale, he 

 had seen a sample of granite that appeared identical with the 

 gneiss of the south of the island, even to the foliation. Mr. 

 De La Mare agreed that the rocks may be identical, the 

 metamorphism being a change of state in plutonic rocks 

 rather than a change from deposited to crystallised rocks. 



Mr. E. D. Marquand read a paper on the local Dialect 

 Names of Animals, and a review of the Guernsey Patois 

 Literature, which is printed in the following pages. The 



