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fish caught off St. Martin's Point) 1903 



" Note on a Deposit of Giaoial Clay and its Contents" 1912 



" Notes on Peat Deposits in Guernsey " 1915 



" Geological Puzzle presented by the Moulin Huet and Icart 



Caves " 1916 



' ' The Pleistocene Period in Guernsey " 1916 



" Notes on the Geological results of the Summer Excur- 

 sions " ". 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914. 



"Sunshine and Rainfall of Guernsey 5J Annual Reports. 



In the Pleistocene Period in Guernsey, a learned and 

 exhaustive paper with numerous illustrations and diagrams, 

 the letterpress of which occupies some 70 pages of the 19 16 

 Transactions, we have enshrined Adolphus Collenette's life 

 wo>rk as a geologist. In his own words it is " an attempt 

 to place the superficial deposits of the island in orderly 

 sequence, and to correlate them with their equivalents in 

 the other islands and on the coast of the English Channel." 

 The monograph is a witness to his indefatigable zeal and 

 reveals much spade work and systematic research. 



Of Mr. Collenette's long association with the Guille- 

 Alles Library very much might be written did space 

 permit. He was the last member left of the original 

 Council and Board of Management the officials com- 

 posing which had been chosen by the late Mr. Thomas 

 Guille shortly before his death in December, 1896. Mr. Col- 

 lenette's position, as defined by Mr. Guille, gave him a seat 

 on the Board of Management from the outset, for not only 

 was he named one of the Subscribers' Representatives, but 

 the one to represent them o»n the Board. In October, 1898, 

 this seat (according to rule, held for two* years only, unless 

 re-election is secured) became permanent by his election by 

 the Council to the important post of Honorary Curator of 

 the Museum in succession to Mr. John Whitehead, the first 

 Curator, who had died in June, 1897. 



How admirably Adolphus Collenette cared for the De- 

 partment under his charge is well known. The Museum itself 

 is a living witness to his unfailing devotion, and to. his pains- 

 taking labours to make of it an educative force. To further 

 this end, and at his own suggestion, the Council of our 

 Society agreed to< the publication yearly in the pages of the 

 Transactions of Museum Notes. The first series of these 

 brief scientific notes appeared in last year's Transactions. 



Nor must his role as a Guille- Alles Lecturer be forgotten. 

 Between the years 1890 and; 191 3 he occupied the platform 

 in the comfortable and well-found Lecture Hall of the 

 Library on no fewer than 36 occasions, his favourite sub- 

 jects of discourse being Astronomy, Geology, Meteorology, 

 with, whenever possible, local applications. 



Ever ready at the invitation of the then Managing Direc- 

 tor of the Library, the late Mr. John Linwood Pitts, to take 



