1921.] KEPOETS* 7 



investigated the site of the Tour de Beauregard under the 

 able auspices of Col. T. W. M. de Guerin, who read a short 

 paper from hitherto unedited MS. on the past history of the 

 Castle. The members present afterwards visited the Town 

 Church. On June 19th the Castel Church was the venue, 

 and about 40 members inspected the Statue Menhir at 

 the West Door of the Church, and the President, Miss E. 

 F. Carey, read a short paper on its discovery under the 

 flooring of the Church during the last restoration, and its 

 great importance as a relic of vast antiquity. A visit was 

 paid to the stone on which the Cour St. Michel used to sit 

 whilst adjudicating on the causes of their tenants in the 

 " Hautes Paroisses." The Old House of Les Fontaines, near 

 by, was next visited, and the well-known Granite Trough 

 sculptured with mermaids and built into the wall of the 

 kitchen was examined.* On July 21st a well-attended ex- 

 cursion took place to Ivy Castle, when the President and 

 Col. T. W. M. de Guerin read short papers on the past his- 

 tory of the ruined edifice. The Excursion to Sark fell 

 through owing to bad weather. On Sept. 22nd an interesting 

 survey under the guidance of Miss A. L. Mellish, M.A., was 

 made of various old houses at the King's Mills — the Cohu 

 House, St. Anne's, La Houguette — ending up at St. George. 

 The finances of the Society have caused the Council 

 much anxiety, and the year ends with an adverse balance. 

 The Society is not out, it is true, to make profits. Its aim 

 is to give all members the best value for their subscriptions, 

 and to do so, should make the Transactions as full of in- 

 terest and information as possible. Its field of work should 

 in theory be such that the annual subscriptions exactly meet 

 the expenses, but in practice it is difficult to arrange that 

 each year should be, so to speak, self-contained, when a year 

 without any expensive matter to publish in the Transactions, 

 on which the greater part of the income is spent, has to stand 

 on the same level as a year when much research has taken 

 place. The Council urges all members to do their utmost to 

 enrol as members any friends who are likely to be interested 

 in the work. It is by individual work only, that the Society 

 can hold together. 



Membership. 



There are 107 Members this year, against 93 last year. 



* Since the visit, the heirs of the late John Carre have, owing 1 to the represen- 

 tations of many Members of the Society, and t n prevent any possibility of its loss 

 to the Island, patriotically presented the Trough, on the occasion of the sale of Les 

 Fontaines in November, 1921, to the States of Guernsey, to be preserved in the 

 Lukis Museum. 



