72 IN MEMORIAM. 



Of Mr. Collenette's important work as a member of the 

 Guernsey Society of Natural Science and Local Research 

 (since January, 1922, the Societe Guernesiaise) the pages 

 of the Transactions are the best proof. They bear testi- 

 mony to his zeal in the cause of science generally and of 

 geology perhaps in particular. In the opening remarks of 

 a paper he read before the Society in its early days he 

 struck the keynote of all his work when he said: 



" ' My country, ' said an American to me three 

 weeks ago, ' is the finest country in the world, and 

 it can produce every known thing.' In something of 

 the same spirit we consider our island the finest in 

 the world, and would prove that all things necessary 

 to< health and happiness are to be found here," 

 Yes, Adolphus Collenette loved Guernsey and loved to 

 demonstrate that it was a good place to live in. Many of 

 us do not doubt this, fo-r it is a popular belief, but Mr. Col- 

 lenette, fenced about with scientific apparatus, could prove 

 it. With thermometers to right and left of him, under- 

 ground, on the ground and above ground, with instruments 

 for registering the sunshine, atmospheric poressure, the wind 

 mileage, the rainfall and goodness only knows what else be- 

 sides, not to speak of the many volumes of local records in 

 his possession — volumes of priceless value because irre- 

 placeable- — he could, speak with authority. Thus armed 

 who* would dare to say him nay when he declared that 

 Guernsey was a good place to live in ; better even than Jer- 

 sey where the temperature is lower in winter and higher in 

 summer and weather phenomena in general moire accen- 

 tuated than in this favoured island of ours. 



Mr. Collenette occupied the Presidential Chair of our 

 Society in 1895 and 1896 and during his term of office read 

 two Presidential Addresses which were published in the Tran- 

 sactions. For some years, too, he was the Honorary Secre- 

 tary of the Geological Section of the Society, in which work 

 he was ably seconded by Mr. C. G. de la Mare, a one-time 

 Treasurer, who has been associated with the Society from 

 its inception and is still, I am happy to say, of our number, 

 and a valued member of the Council. 



Some of the papers read before the Society by Mr. Col- 

 lenette were published in the Transactions where will be 

 found the following : — 

 " On the Occurrence of Calcite (Carbonate of Lime) in 



Guernsey " 1883 



" Evolution of the Bee " 1890 



" Raised Beaches, Cliff and Rubble Heads of Guernsey"... 1891 & 1892 

 11 Droughts in Guernsey during the Fifty-year Period, 



1843-1893 " 1893 



" Note on the Temperature of September, 1895 " 1895 



" Note on Luvarus Imperialis n (an excessively rare deep-sea 



