MEETINGS. 73 



Monthly Meeting held March 11th, 1896, Mr. A. Collenette, 

 President, in the chair. 



After reading and signing of minutes of last meeting, 

 Miss Foster was proposed for election by the Secretary. 

 Mr. J. Hume Spry was unanimously elected a member. 



Mr. J. Whitehead presented to the Society, bound in 

 one volume, all the papers by Rev. E. Hill and Professor 

 Bonney on the Geology of the various Channel Isles (except 

 Jersey) and outlying rocks. 



The Secretary announced the receipt of : — 



1. An Introduction to the Study of Rocks. 



2. Guide to the British Mycetozoa. 

 both from the Trustees of the British Museum. 



The President alluded to the sad accident which resulted 

 in the sudden death of Mr. Z. Robert on the 5th inst., and the 

 Secretary was requested to send a note of condolence to the 

 family. 



Mr. Luff exhibited a very beautiful carnivorous beetle, 

 Lebia chlorocephalus, new to the Guernsey list. This speci- 

 men was found on the cliffs at Petit Bot by Mr. Luff in 

 February, 1896. 



Monthly Meeting held April 8th, 1896. 



The number of members present being so small, no 

 business was transacted. 



Mr. Hocart noted that in boring for a well near Le 

 Houmet, Vale, on the property of Mr. Le Poidevin, a peat 

 deposit 8 feet thick was bored through at a distance of feet 

 below the surface. 



Monthly Meeting held May 13th, 1896, Mr. A. Collenette, 

 President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting having been read and 

 signed, Miss F. A. Foster was unanimously elected. 



Gen. Hubert Le Cocq was proposed for election by the 

 President. 



The Secretary announced the receipt of the Proceedings 

 of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, Part III., 

 October to December. 



Mr. Collenette exhibited a spindle-whorl (stone) and 

 formerly used in Guernsey, found at Cobo. 



Mr. Luff exhibited three distinct species of Galls on oak 

 leaves and flowers j the Currant Gall on the male catkins, 



