12 MEETINGS. 



Monthly Meeting ', Wednesday, October 15th, the President, 

 Mr. F. L. Tanner, in the chair. 



Mr. A. Collenette gave an address on the Geological and 

 Anthropological Results of the Summer Excursions. The 

 paper was illustrated by numerous specimens and lantern 

 slides. It will be found in another part of this volume. 



Monthly Meeting, Wednesday, November 19th, the President, 

 Mr. F. L. Tanner, in the chair. 



Professor R. R. Marett, Miss Best, Messrs. W. Stone- 

 house, A. J. F. Gibbons and W. Rolleston, M.A., were 

 elected members of the Society. 



Mons. Metman exhibited a number of beautifully 

 mounted specimens of Guernsey seaweeds. 



THE CHURCH PLATE OF GUERNSEY. 



Mr. S. Carey Curtis then read a paper on the Church 

 Plate of Guernsey in the course of which he described the 

 plate of the Town Church, St. Sampson's, Castel, St. 

 Saviour's, St. Peter's and the Forest. Mr. Curtis alluded to 

 the various periods in the history of the Church and the 

 effects of the Reformation. There was uniformity in the 

 design of some of the older pieces of plate, which were of 

 local or French workmanship as a rule. He had discovered 

 no less than twenty marks that were neither English nor French, 

 indicating that there was a considerable silver industry in 

 Guernsey at one time. The oldest piece of plate, dated 1525, 

 was in St. Sampson's Church. This ancient cup was shown 

 on the screen and described as of Tudor design, the two 

 earlier forms having been Gothic and Norman. Many of the 

 pieces of plate in the churches had been gifts, and some of 

 the jugs and dishes seemed to have originally been made for 

 domestic use. One of the most important pieces of plate was 

 the ampulla in the Town Church, given to the Church in 1906 

 by the Rev. Stevens Guille, in whose family it had been for 

 many years. It is pre-Reformation, but Mr. Curtis expressed 

 doubt as to whether it had ever been used at the Chapel of 

 St. Appoline, although it bore the letter A. The photograph 

 of the Castel plate was one taken before the robbery early in 

 the year. The cups both bore local marks. The flagon was 

 a counterpart of one in Grouville Church, Jersey. The plate 

 at St. Saviour's was all old, the isolation of the parish 

 accounting to some extent for the fact that it had not been 



