308 MEETINGS. 



ment of this order of animals, and exhibited specimens 

 from the Gruille-Alles Museum, both British and foreign. 



Mr. E. D. Marquand read a paper on " The Flora 

 of Herm," which will be found further on in these pages ; 

 and afterwards exhibited specimens of three Flowering- 

 Plants new to Guernsey, found this year, and other botanical 

 rarities. Referring to the existence of a submerged forest in 

 Alderney, Mr. Marquand said he did not think the sub- 

 ject was generally known to the members, as no record of 

 it had been made in the Transactions. He would therefore 

 read a letter which he had inserted in two of the Guernsey 

 newspapers in July, 1901, the main portion of which ran 

 as follows : — 



" A few days ago, while walking along the shore 

 of Longy Bay, Alderney, my attention was drawn 

 to some dark brown patches extending for twenty 

 or thirty yards among the shingle, about mid-tide 

 level. These patches proved on examination to be 

 a soft kind of peat, on the surface of which were 

 embedded the remains of trees and branches, as 

 well as fragments of timber, the whole closely re- 

 sembling what I have seen in Vazon Bay, and also 

 in Cornwall. The peat was sufficiently soft to allow 

 of its being easily cut with a pocket-knife, and I 

 secured three fairly characteristic specimens which 

 I hope to present to the Guernsey Museum as soon 

 as they are dry. It should be noted that Longy 

 Bay lies almost exactly opposite the nearest point 

 of the French mainland, and it may be that ages 

 ago a large portion of the Race of Alderney con- 

 sisted of forest land.* 1 

 Mr. W. A. Luff exhibited some extremely rare 

 insects, mostly of small size, recently taken in Herm ; and 

 read a paper on the remarkable absence of the common 

 Hive Bee from that island, which appears in the current 

 number of the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. Living 

 specimens of the Mole Cricket were also shown, and were 

 described as being locally abundant in Guernsey, often 

 causing much injury to crops. 



Monthly Meeting held on December 14th, 1904, Dr. J. Aikman, 

 President, in the chair. 



Mr. W. A. Luff, F.E.S., read a paper on the/ 4 The 

 Insects of Herm and Jethou," which is printed in the 

 present Transactions. 



