In IDemoriam. 



Adolphus Collenette, 



Born 20th July, 1841 ; Died 7th May, 1922. 



In the person of Adolphus Collenette who died on May 

 7th, 1922, in his 81st year, the Societe Guernesiaise has 

 lost one of its few remaining organizers and a particularly 

 active worker. In its sketch of the life of the deceased the 

 Star of May 8th said that his death had " filled the whole 

 island with grief," to which might have been added with 

 peculiar genuineness, "and thrown the Societe Guerne- 

 siaise into mourning.' * It is not saying too much of our 

 friend, for it is certain that the Society has never claimed in 

 its ranks a member more energetic or more keenly interested 

 in all the branches of research undertaken during the 4.0 

 years of its existence as the " Guernsey Society of Natural 

 Science and Local Research." I do no think it is an exag- 

 geration to say that for many years Mr. Collenette was the 

 life of the Society, for although a geologist first and fore- 

 most and a meteorologist next, he was an all-round scien- 

 tist of noi mean order — a, savant Guernsey was proud to 

 claim as a true born son of the soil. 



He was a brilliant conversationalist and popular lecturer 

 and was gifted with a wonderful memory, as those privi- 

 leged to listen to< his last few papers on local weather will 

 remember. Handicapped very seriously by failing sight he 

 had to rely on his memory for the facts and figures, and 

 the ease and confidence with which he would tell the story 

 of the year's sunshine and rainfall was so' truly marvellous 

 as to win the unstinted admiration of his hearers. 



Deceased was a widower. On the 1st October, 1868, 

 at the Congregational Church, Camden-road, Islington, 

 London, he was married to> Mane Louise, eldest daughter 

 of Mr. William Ozanne, of Upper Holloway, London. Their 

 married life throughout was a happy union of hearts 

 extending to* close on 51 years when, very suddenly, the 

 separation came. On Julv 1 8th, 191Q, Mrs. Collenette, 

 apparently in her ordinary health, passed away, leaving a 

 grown up family of one son and four daughters to mourn a 



