Meetings, 1885. 



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At a Monthly Meeting held April 21st, 1885, Mr. 0. G. De La 

 Mare, Vice-President, in the chair. 



The Rock-bait, a species of Nereis, having recently been 

 made the subject of an ordinance of the Royal Court, con- 

 siderable time was spent in discussing its formation and 

 development— but no information was elicited beyond what 

 was already known. 



Mr. Derrick showed a collection of more than seventy 

 plants found in bloom in the first fortnight of April, and mostly 

 obtained in a single excursion to the cliffs near Petit Bot. 



Nine meetings of members were held during the year — 

 but no formal papers were read, and although the subjects 

 discussed at these meetings were highly interesting and 

 instructive to the members present, nothing transpired worthy 

 of permanent record. No excursions were held during the 

 year. Baillon's Crake (Gallinula Baillonii) was found on L'An- 

 cresse, June 7th, 1885; not recorded previously. The Con- 

 volvulus, Death's Head, and other Moths have been abundant 

 this year. 



The third Annual General Meeting teas held at the Guille-Alles 

 Library, on Tuesday, November 24th, 1885, the President, Mr. T. 

 Guille, in the chair. 

 Mr. W. 8harp, hon. sec, read the report, as follows : — 

 Though the third year of the Society's existence has not 

 been marked by very vigorous growth (only two new members 

 having been admitted) nor very important work, yet signs of 

 vitality are not wanting, and the year upon which we have 

 just entered promises to be one of more definite and extended 

 action. A local museum— the value of which has long been 

 acknowledged— is in a fair way of again becoming a reality ; 



