186 MEETINGS. 



No excursions took place during the summer, but in the 

 early part of August a week's visit was paid to the Island by 

 some thirty members of the Societe Jersiaise who, in company 

 with a large number of members of this Society, visited the 

 chief places of interest in this island. For a detailed account 

 of this visit the reader is referred to the separate paper found 

 elsewhere in these Transactions. 



OPENING OF THE WINTER SESSION, 1915-16. 



Monthly Meeting held November 17th, 1915, 31iss A. /,. 

 Mellish in the chair. 



Mr. A. A. Gould, The Uplands, St. Peter-Port, was 

 elected a member of this Society. 



Col. T. W. M. de Gruerin reported that excavations had 

 been recently made at the Tudus dolmen. No additional side 

 chambers had been discovered, but a broken stone hammer 

 and a granite implement had been found. Two long stones 

 lying east and west had been uncovered, which might form 

 part of a stone circle surrounding the dolmen. 



Considerable interest was manifested in a photograph of 

 a boulder lying on the beach between Guernsey and Lihou, 

 and covered at high water. The upper surface has been 

 excavated to a depth of about two inches, this excavation 

 conforming to the shape of the block and leaving a rim of 

 uniform width all round. An attempt appears to have been 

 made at some remote, perhaps prehistoric period, to hollow out 

 the stone into the shape of a trough with the intention of 

 removing it when lightened of the superfluous material, and 

 abandoned probably on account of a flaw in the block. 



A shrike was exhibited, the first shot in this island, 

 though three specimens had been previously secured in Jersey ; 

 also a fish called a bogue (Box vulgaris) whose habitat is the 

 Mediterranean. It somewhat resembles a shad, and was 

 caught off the Brayes on September 23rd by Mr. Charles 

 Ferguson. A number of flint flakes from Mr. H. J. Morgan's 

 garden, and a peculiarly shaped flint found in the 25 foot 

 beach near Fort Le Marchant were also shown. The latter 

 is considered by Mr. A. Collenette to be an eolith and is 

 similar iu shape to one figured by Dr. Churchward as the 

 work of a dwarf race still inhabiting Central Africa. 



Mr. A. Collenette read a paper on peat deposits in this 

 island and Major S. C. Curtis one on the evolution of the 

 Town Church (St. Peter-Port). Both these papers are printed 

 in this vear's Transactions. 



