SOME IMPRESSIONS OF OUR VISIT TO JERSEY, 



JULY 30th TO AUGUST 7th, 1916. 



The visit of the Societe Jersiaise to Guernsey in 1915 

 left our Society with a duty, albeit a pleasant one, to fulfil, 

 by accepting the more than cordial invitation of the Sister 

 Society to pay them a return visit in their own confines. 

 Doubts were freely expressed ns to whether the visit would 

 be a success. The expenses would be too great ; the time was 

 not a propitious one. and so forth. But the event disproved 

 all these pessimistic prophecies and 7 o'clock on Sunday 

 morning, July 30th, saw 17 of our Members determined to 

 uphold the honour of the Society on board the " Great 

 Southern." Our Geologists were there, also our Marine 

 Biologist and two Genealogists and a few Archaeologists, an 

 Archivist and a sprinkling of the weaker sex, with two Vice- 

 Presidents to keep the peace in case our Geologists were not 

 able to settle their differences in a decorous manner. The 

 morning was a beautiful one, and those who had been half- 

 hearted over the excursion must have felt pangs of regret at 

 not being of the party. Breakfast was our first duty, not up 

 to the standard of our old friend the " Ibex," however. That 

 over, we found ourselves Hearing the coast of Jersey, and 

 coasting along St. Ouen's Bay we soon passed the Corbiere 

 Lighthouse without any of the usual accompaniments — thanks 

 to the calm weather- — and in due course found ourselves in the 

 Harbour of St. Helier. 



The joint Secretaries of the Societe Jersiaise, Mr. E. T. 

 Nicolle (we lately had the pleasure of seeing his appointment 

 as Vicomte of Jersey) and Col. R. G. Warton met us, and 

 the usual introductions having been made we moved off" to the 

 Hotel de l'Europe, where host Tremel received us in the way 

 in which the French hotel " patron " is such an adept. 



The first official event of the visit took place in the 

 afternoon. The Societe Jersiaise, with that forethought 

 which was evident throughout the whole visit, and knowing 

 that we should be probably at a loose end with the first 

 Sunday — to many of us — in Jersey had arranged a full-dress 

 reception in their Museum in Pier Road, a few steps from the 

 Hotel. The President, the Committee and most of the offi- 



