188 REPORTS. 



Report of the Council for the year 1915. 



During the past year, owing to the continuance of the 

 war and the prevailing uncertainty arising therefrom, the 

 Summer Excursions were limited to the first week in August, 

 when the visit of some 30 members of the Societe Jersiaise 

 was made the occasion of Excursions to Castle Cornet and 

 the Churches and Dolmens of Guernsey. A full report of 

 this visit appears elsewhere. 



The Council take this opportunity of expressing their 

 pleasure at the welcome repetition of their visit 15 years ago, 

 and trust that the Society may be able to accept the invitation 

 of the Societe Jersiaise to visit the sister isle during the year 

 1916. The Council has provisionally fixed the date as the 

 last week in July, which appears to be convenient both for us 

 and our confreres in Jersey. 



Papers were read during the indoor sessions by Mr. A. 

 Collenette in January on the Rainfall and Sunshine of 1915. 

 The March meeting took the form this year of an evening 

 visit to the Lukis Museum, by kind permission of the Lukis 

 Museum Committee, and was much appreciated by all who 

 took part in it. At the November meeting Mr. S. C. Curtis 

 read a paper on the Evolution of the Town Church, tracing 

 its development from a small fisherman's chapel to the present 

 church. This is published in extenso in this year's Transac- 

 tions. 



MEMBERSHIP. 



The membership this year is 98 as against 105 last 

 year. 



OBITUARY. 



The Bailiff, Sir William Carey, President of the Society 

 1911-1913, to the great regret of the Island, died on July 27. 



His genial personality, and transparent interest in all 

 relating to Guernsey made him liked by all, and although his 

 duties as Bailiff did not permit his taking an active part in the 

 Society latterly, his interest in it, arising from his lengthy 

 membership dating from 1891, always remained the same. 



The Council of the Society has, as in former years, to 

 thank the Management of the Guille-Alles Library for their 

 continued interest in the work of the Society, for the use 

 of the room for the meetings and for the Great Hall 

 in connection with the soiree to the Jersey visitors, and for a 

 generous contribution to the Fund for Prehistoric Research, 

 through the Curator of the Museum, Mr. A. Collenette. 



