8 MEETINGS. 



Mr. LufF then read a paper by the late Fr. Walker, 

 F.L.S., communicated by his son, Rev. Walker, D.D., F.E.S. 

 This was followed by a long discussion. 



Seventeenth Annual Meeting held on December 19th, 1900, 

 Mr. W. A. Luff, President, in the chair. 



After reading the minutes of last meeting. Miss Slade 

 and Miss Wagstaffe were elected, and Mrs. Foreman was 

 proposed for election. 



Mr. Pitts exhibited examples of vegetable fibre and cane 

 dug up in a lagoon in Florida by Colonel Durnford, and lent 

 by that gentleman. 



Mr. Collenette exhibited a mass of " grit " found between 

 four and five feet below the surface embedded in clay at the 

 property of Mr. P. Domaille, in Hue Poudreuse. The stone 

 is foreign to the island, and bears evidence of having been 

 worked into a hollow curve on one side. 



Mr. LufF read a paper on " Additions to Alderney List 

 of Insects." 



Mr. Derrick read the report of the Botanical Section, 

 Mr. LufF that of the Entomological Section, and Mr. De La 

 Mare gave a brief recapitulation of the work of the Geological 

 Section. 



Mr. Pitts announced that the MSS of the late Sir Edgar 

 MacCulloch on " Guernsey Folk-lore " would soon be pub- 

 lished. 



SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, 



In presenting their Seventeenth Annual Report your 

 Council is pleased to note that there has been no serious 

 diminution in the membership of the Society, which now 

 stands at 93. Four new members have been added during 

 the year. Eight indoor meetings have been held ; these 

 meetings were suspended during the summer months, when 

 the attendance has been generally very meagre. Five out- 

 door meetings were organised, viz. : To Corbiere Point, 

 Alderney, Claire Mare and neighbourhood, Sark and Jethou. 

 The two latter had, however, to be abandoned for various 

 reasons. The reports of the Sectional Secretaries will record 

 in detail the work done during the year, which in many 

 particulars is very gratifying. 



